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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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adjustment, comparison, Expedients, intercept, intercepting, intercepts, lay out, pause, probabilities
«I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities»
«Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt»
«I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven»