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«Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence»
«Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, eloquence, magnificence, numerous, pathetic, peruse, perused, perusing, promises, sublime
«The triumph of hope over experience»
«He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others»
«Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author»
«Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, break in, feed, feed upon, fix, imperceptibly, intervals, troubles, wholly, with attention
«Judgment is forced upon us by experience»
«Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
commits, constitutes, deceives, diminution, fraud, injury, not guilty
«Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Moderation
| Keywords:
commonly, firmness, moderation
«In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge,
Travel
| Keywords:
bring home, travelling
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