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Rising Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
- A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.
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