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Discernment Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and…
- But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment…
- It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
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- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from… — Samuel Johnson
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