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Side Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where…
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;…
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
- The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
- 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…
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