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Days Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
- 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…
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes…
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
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