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«Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage»
«It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous»
«Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves»
«Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking»
«We must either outlive our friends you know, or our friends must outlive us; and I see no man that would hesitate about the choice»
«Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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combinations, faithless, licentious, overwhelm, perfidy, practiced, wickedness
«There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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celebrated, delighted, Groves, In a Grove, melody, rivulet, scarcely, The Whisper
«We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures»
«Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off»
«Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world»
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