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Call Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of…
- Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms…
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