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Maxims 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…
- 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…
- They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
- It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
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