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They Cannot Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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