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Celebrated Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- 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…
- There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
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- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson