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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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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – 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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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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