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Laborious Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
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