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Mere Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
- A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature 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…
- 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?
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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