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Appetites Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
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