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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence


Samuel Johnson

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JOHN MILTON The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
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J.J. MCAVOY Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
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JAMES BOSWELL Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.
CHARLES CHURCHILL For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
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R. L. STINE The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Eve...
SHANNON L. ALDER During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what s...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Essentially, they (Guidant) are going to say ... yes there have been issues at Guidant, but do those...
FRANK AQUILA Mysteries are just unclear axioms.
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EDWARD M. HALLOWELL In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisf...
JOHN SELDEN Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is onl...
JANE PORTER Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
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JOSEPH SANCHES It's funnier than I thought it would be. The process of making it is so laborious, as you're working...
PRUDENCE JOHNSON We have to be absolutely vigilant that those children aren't fleeing those schools,
DIANNE JOHNSON I believe some of those schools could take some of the kids away from the outlying schools, ... Beca...
KATHY NELSON The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
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JAMES HOWE The Olympic Games are about achievement, which is only possible if the athletes are in peak health. ...
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BEV PERDUE Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a l...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There's a lot of focus at Harvard and lots of other places on the fact that there are no low-income ...
JOSHUA WYNER As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what ...
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DANA TOFIG Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children....
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JENNIFER WAGNER It can mean thousands of dollars in additional costs to American families. And those with higher deb...
MARK BRENNER Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
WASHINGTON IRVING Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.
FRANK VERRASTRO My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that the...
MICHAEL DIRDA Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were w...
ALAIN BOTTON Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were w...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teacher...
ALEXA POSNY Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
WILLIAM STYRON There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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FRANCIS BACON Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to tr...
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ANDREW MOTION I think kids have to draw up a list of the skills they have and the schools they're interested in at...
DAVE CLARKE Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
ATHENAEUS Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
ATHENAEUS Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON SR. When you're on the edges, those schools get looked at.
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GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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THEHEALTHFOODGURU Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I like a good hater.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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