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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and an

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. – Proverb

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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. – Samuel Johnson

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The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar. – Charles Eastman

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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