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Manner Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and…
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
- He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as…
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