Samuel Johnson's Quote - What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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No man was ever great by imitation. – Samuel Johnson

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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. – Baltasar GraciÃ¡n, translated from Spanish

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