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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
intercept, intercepting, intercepts, steadiness, undertaking, vigor
«Faults and defects every work of man must have»
«A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek»
«Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding»
«The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning»
«Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
propagate, propagated, propagates
«How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick»
«There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
investigator, investigators, prior, prodigious
«A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told»
«He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor»
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