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Discovered Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
- We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
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- Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure.… — George Carlin
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