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Afterwards Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with…
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At…
- I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is…
- Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
- It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge…
More Afterwards Quotes
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce
- Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin,… — Elayne Boosler
- The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander
- Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. — Lewis Carroll
- Sentence first, verdict afterwards. — Lewis Carroll