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«In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, / Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! / From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, / And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show.»
«It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: estates, yearly
«What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.»
«This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Parsons
«For who is pleased with himself.»
«Virtue is too often merely local.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Virtue
«He that never thinks can never be wise.»
«Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.»
«It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.»
«He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.»

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