"Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and……" — Samuel Johnson

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• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they… — Alexander Pope
• By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of… — Alexander Hamilton
• A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it,… — Ann Zwinger
• After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to… — James Boswell
• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be… — Samuel Johnson
• I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all… — Juan Gabriel
• The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave… — Michael Collier
• ... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was… — Nicholas von Hoffman
• Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was… — William Shakespeare
• Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. — Henry David Thoreau
• It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly… — Daniel Greenberg

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