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Thrown Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no…
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
- The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
- Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
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