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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it»
«There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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convenience, forsake, incitement, incitements, palliate, palliated, palliating, Truth The
«He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber»
«I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober»
«Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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complaint, dejection, dwells, lamentation, Lamentations, observed, peculiar, strain, theme
«The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Authority
| Keywords:
accidental, coeval, confounded, Laws of nature, prescriptions, procured, the laws of nature, veneration, with reason
«A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing»