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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.»
«Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.»
«Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Courage | Keywords: preserving, reckoned
«Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss»
«I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations»
«Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud»
«It is better a man should be abused than forgotten»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: abused
«It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.»
«Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Advertising | Keywords: advertisement
«The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration»