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«To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar»
«It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age»
«Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Adversity
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acquainted, acquainted with
«Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him»
«We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as a guide»
«Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature»
«While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Writers
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estimate, estimates, estimating, rate
«Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom
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Almost always, cunning, cunning man
«Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.»
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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affords, conviction, library, public libraries, public library, Public place, striking, vanity
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