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«Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Quotations
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classical, literary, parole, quotation
«Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Friends
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failings, palliate, palliated, palliating, similitude
«Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other»
«Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Politeness
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advantages, estimate, inconvenience, politeness, rightly
«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»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, consideration, purity, without consideration
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