18th century

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is reasonable to have perfection in…”

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Charles de Montesquieu

Charles de Montesquieu quote: “It is not the young people that…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is not true that people are…”

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing quote: “It is not the truth that a…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is more from carelessness about truth…”

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Novelist quotes

Samuel Richardson quote: “It is much easier to find fault…”

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John Dryden

John Dryden quote: “It is madness to make fortune the…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “It is in men as in soils…”

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: “It is in the gift for employing…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “It is impossible that anything so natural…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is better to remain silent and…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is better to suffer wrong than…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is better to live rich than…”

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Novelist quotes

Samuel Richardson quote: “It is better to be thought perverse…”

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Charles de Montesquieu

Charles de Montesquieu quote: “It is always the adventurers who do…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is better that some should be…”

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: “It is a question whether, when we…”

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: “It is almost everywhere the case that…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It is a most mortifying reflection for…”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft quote: “It appears to me impossible that I…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “It generally happens that assurance keeps an…”

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison quote: “Is there not some chosen curse, some…”

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Samuel Johnson quote: “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “Interest is the spur of the people…”

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift quote: “Invention is the talent of youth, as…”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft quote: “Independence I have long considered as the…”

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Charles de Montesquieu

Charles de Montesquieu quote: “In the infancy of societies, the chiefs…”

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Thomas Day quote: “In the western part of England lived…”

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Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu quote: “In short I will part with anything…”

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