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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson

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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. – Lydia Maria Child

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