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«Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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cannon, cannons, debts, loud noise, scarcely
«To build is to be robbed»
«All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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benefactor, rectified, rectifies, rectify, refines, satirical
«It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain»
«Wit can stand its ground against Truth only a little while»
«The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less»
«No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality»
«If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head»
«In questions difficult or dangerous, it is indeed natural to repose upon authority, and, when fear happens to predominate, upon the authority of those whom we do not in general think wiser than ourselves»
«A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one»
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