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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. - Sa

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. – Samuel Johnson

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Death
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Samuel Johnson
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. – Ronald Firbank

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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. – Michel Foucault

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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. – Pauline Hanson

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Mammalia, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce

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