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Tenderness Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
- Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
- 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;…
- Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
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