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Names Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps…
- He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
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