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This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his commodities only to his friends ...
This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his commodities only to his friends ...
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A man , who , under poverty , calamities , and disappointments , could make so many friends , and those so truly valuable , must have just and noble ideas of the passion of friendship , in the success of which consisted the greatest ...
A man , who , under poverty , calamities , and disappointments , could make so many friends , and those so truly valuable , must have just and noble ideas of the passion of friendship , in the success of which consisted the greatest ...
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And of those whom we know , which do we cherish most , our friends or our enemies ? And of our friends , which are the dearest to us ? those who are related to us , or those who > are not ? And of all our relations , ADDISON 435.
And of those whom we know , which do we cherish most , our friends or our enemies ? And of our friends , which are the dearest to us ? those who are related to us , or those who > are not ? And of all our relations , ADDISON 435.
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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