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«The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest»
«In proportion as those who write on temporary subjects are exalted above their merit at first, they are afterwards depressed below it»
«Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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concentrates, depend upon, fortnight, wonderfully
«There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
executed, Introduction to, literary work, stating
«Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep»
«Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present»
«But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the public; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are veheme»
«If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably fall in love, as it is called, with each other; but at six months end if you would throw them both into public life wh»
«Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Life,
Morality,
Wit
| Keywords:
ostentatious, tumid
«Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves»
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