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“He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy.”
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“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
“The thing is to dazzle”
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“The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.”
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“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
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