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Ground Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his…
- Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers…
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