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Original Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the…
- From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
- 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…
- Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
- Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions
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