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Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th
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Suggest Revision: Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th
  
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion
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Suggest Revision: A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion
  
Language is the dress of thought.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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Suggest Revision: There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
  
Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.
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Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'
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Suggest Revision: Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'
  
In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w.
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Suggest Revision: In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w.
  
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
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Suggest Revision: Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
  
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Suggest Revision: Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
  
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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Suggest Revision: Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
  
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    Age Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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