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Consider Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
- Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
- Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- 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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