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Refinement Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
- 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…
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- People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll
- The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton
- Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly… — Delbert L. Stapley
- There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of… — Maria Jane McIntosh