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Escaped Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;…
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