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Merely Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- Virtue is too often merely local.
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die
- Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction
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