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«The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiq»
«Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, at ease, governors, indiscriminate, petitioner, presently, redress, redressing, request, wrongs
«(King) was one of those who tried what Wit could perform, in opposition to Learning, on a question which Learning alone could decide»
«We may examine, indeed, but we never can decide, because our faculties are unequal to the subject: we see a little, and form an opinion; we see more, and change it»
«Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
necessaries, superfluities, superfluity
«For we who live to please must please to live»
«It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge themselves afterwards in disbelieving him at pleasure»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
disbelieving, indulge, monitor, monitoring, monitors, partialities, partiality, untainted
«Controvertists cannot long retain their kindness for each other»
«It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease»
«To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Misfortune
| Keywords:
affords, alleviated, alleviates, relieving, wipe, wipe off
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