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False Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- Round numbers are always false.
- He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,…
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