He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.Samuel Johnson
It is as bad as bad can be it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.
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I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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