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Passage Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is…
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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