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Soon Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
- They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep…
- He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance…
- As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it
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