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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«You could not stand five minutes with that man (Burke) beneath a shed while it rained, but you must be convinced you had been standing with the greatest man you had ever yet seen»
«Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little»
«Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use»
«Sir, I have two cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money»
«Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment»
«Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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acquisitions, adequate to, animate, discoveries
«The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning»
«(Hanway) is to expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle scarcely has time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.»
«If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons»
«Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet»
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