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Chance Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;…
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an…
- We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and…
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
- Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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