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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life...
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Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. ...
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a...
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his...
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Source:...
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they...
Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has...
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.Source: Referring to Lord...
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.Source: Rasselas, Ch....
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. More about this quote...
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. More about this quote...
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.Source: In James Boswell, Life of...
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.Source: The Idler, in...
Round numbers are always false.Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol....
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me...
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.Source: Quoted...
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of...
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the...
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but...
The only sensual pleasure without vice.Source: Referring to music. Johnsonian...
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