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«Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.»
«He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.»
«Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and, therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.»
«Much . . . may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.»
«Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown.»
«Still raise for good the supplicating voice, / But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Raise Your Voice, supplicate, supplicating
«The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.»
«Particulars are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed.»
«Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey mankind from China to Peru.»
«Sir, he lived in London, and hung loose upon society.»
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