Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAlmost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Truth allows no choice.
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