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Interest Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
- A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has,…
- There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
- In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
- Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive
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