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Visible Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own…
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment,…
- Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
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