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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
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«Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.»
«...that what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present.»
«Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.»
«If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.»
«The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.»
«Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.»
«Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. . . . This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.»
«What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.»
«This world where much is to be done and little to be known.»
«The supreme end of education is expert discernment of all things- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.»
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