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6 consider whether there is the greater chance of good or evil upon the whole . If I see a man who had fallen into a well , I would wish to help him out ; but if there is a greater probability that he shall pull me in , than that I ...
6 consider whether there is the greater chance of good or evil upon the whole . If I see a man who had fallen into a well , I would wish to help him out ; but if there is a greater probability that he shall pull me in , than that I ...
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience ; you will find it a calamity . Poverty takes away so many means of doing good , and produces so much inability to resist evil , both natural and moral , that it is by ...
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience ; you will find it a calamity . Poverty takes away so many means of doing good , and produces so much inability to resist evil , both natural and moral , that it is by ...
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... and he once bade a very celebrated lady , who praised him with too much zeal perhaps , or perhaps too strong an emphasis , ( which always offended him , ) consider what her flattery was worth , before she choaked him with it .
... and he once bade a very celebrated lady , who praised him with too much zeal perhaps , or perhaps too strong an emphasis , ( which always offended him , ) consider what her flattery was worth , before she choaked him with it .
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| Título | Life of Johnson Volumen204 de Oxford Paperbacks Volumen204 de Oxford Paperbacks: Literature Oxford standard authors |
| Autor | James Boswell |
| Edición | 3, reimpresa |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 5 Mayo 2009 |
| Largo | 1491 páginas |
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