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«The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.»
«AS THEY SAY, here today, Enron tomorrow.»
«If you happen to be in the right place and know the right people, with a lot of hard work and loads of luck, you have the chance to make it big here.»
«To want the impossible is self-defeating and can end only in frustration. To wish for an unattainable goal, however, may mean achieving ones that one might not otherwise.»
«Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.»
«Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.»
«Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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calculating, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, madam
«If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.»
«The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.»
«Security will produce danger.»
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