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Improvement Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things
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