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Improved Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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