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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Sa

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson

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Politics
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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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Gambling (Gaming)
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Samuel Johnson
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. – Plutarch

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