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Escape Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
More Escape Quotes
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- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead
- All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only… — A. C. Benson