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Longer Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
- To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when…
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
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