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Exact Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
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