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«I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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attempting, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling
«Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it»
«The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature»
«No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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airy, Beyond the Limits, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified»
«They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it»
«Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded»
«Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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doubtful, peevishness, rashly, unwillingness
«Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehood which interests dictates and credulity encourages»
«Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection»
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