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«A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion»
«Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
distinct, uniform, universally
«Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;»
«I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.»
«Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.»
«Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence»
«We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us»
«That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him»
«Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition»
«That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Vanity
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interchange, interchanging
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