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Importance Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- Every man is of importance to himself.
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives…
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction
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