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Distinction Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
- There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has…
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
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- I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. — John Banville
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