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Faculty Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
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