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Back Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- 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…
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
- I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
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