You can never be wise unless you love reading.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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