Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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