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Cut Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
- Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
- Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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