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Lower Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
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- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for… — Aneurin Bevan
- The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson