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Public Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has,…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
- About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
- His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
- A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor…
- If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably…
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
- He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor…
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