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Above Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
- Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
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