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Malignity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
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