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Samuel Johnson Quotes: Example is more efficacious than precept.
         

Example is more efficacious than precept.


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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.



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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.



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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.



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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.





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