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«Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.»
«Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth»
«Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Courage
| Keywords:
associated, Maintaining, respected
«The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside»
«The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
depreciate, depreciates, determinations, dignify, partial, promulgate, promulgated, representations
«Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
contributes, enlargement, enlargements, quotation
«A jest breaks no bones»
«The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow»
«Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present»
«Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty»
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