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Expedients Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
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- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much… — Samuel Johnson
- The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
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- There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks