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«As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy»
«I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits»
«If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still»
«Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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evaded, evading, industriously, redeemer, transgressed, transgressing
«He that has much to do will do something wrong»
«To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful»
«Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds»
«Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest»
«Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united»
«The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad»
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