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Sentences Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
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