Quote #144
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. A man when he gets into a higher sphere, into other…
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
- Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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