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Form Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
- Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
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