Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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