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Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated...
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written...
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He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he...
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you...
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as...
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting...
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his...
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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary...
Quote #3820
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a...