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Early Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
- In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen…
- I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
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