"Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and……" — Samuel Johnson
"Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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