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Individual Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
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