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Alacrity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
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- Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to… — Alexander Pope
- The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier
- By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton
- A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts… — Ann Zwinger
- After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security… — Samuel Johnson
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson
- I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing… — Juan Gabriel