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Sufficient Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
- Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his…
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