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Formerly Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms…
- There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose…
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- We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein
- It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume
- Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about.… — Bertrand Russell
- Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and… — Justin Martyr
- Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe,… — Romain Rolland
- OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in… — Ambrose Bierce