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Growing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
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