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Modern Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
- To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without,…
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
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