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Narrative Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
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