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«We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Relationships
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alter, differ, imperceptibly, offended, remark
«Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Inconsistency
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impute, imputed, imputes, imputing, inconsistencies
«To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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connect, distant, prerogative, prerogatives, proceed, propositions, regular
«Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords»
«There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful»
«Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it»
«We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.»
«The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.»
«To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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comforts, die away, negligence, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, The Pilgrimage, throw away, voluntarily, weary
«Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.»
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