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Apparent Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
- Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which…
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