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«We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us»
«To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity»
«He that finds his knowledge narrow, and his arguments weak, and by consequence his suffrage not much regarded, is sometimes in hope of gaining that attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain, and is pleased with remembering that at la»
«Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect»
«It is common for controversists, in the heat of disputation, to add one position to another till they reach the extremities of knowledge, where truth and falsehood lose their distinction»
«Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book; it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten»
«To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution»
«The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity»
«But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For gold the hireling judge di»
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