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Expression Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
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