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Tell Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and…
- To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of…
- I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At…
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is…
- It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what…
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
- A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will…
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
- I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
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