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Proportionate Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- ...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- All envy is proportionate to desire.
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- ...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson
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