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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Libraries
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Patriotism
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. – Robert Walpole

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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary… is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. – Robert Jackson

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Patriotism

The music industrys actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesnt it? – Ronnie James Dio

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Patriotism

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. – Socrates

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Patriotism

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