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Compared Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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