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Privilege Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain…
- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
- To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
- It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the…
- The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege…
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- Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. — Thomas Carlyle
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- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson
- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege… — Ambrose Bierce
- It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono