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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”

Samuel Johnson · Knowledge

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Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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