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Except Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;…
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
- No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
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- I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. — Spiro T. Agnew
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