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Properly Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
- A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
- To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
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