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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Samuel Johnson

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Effort Happiness Reading Writing
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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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
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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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Coward Patriot Refuge
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Love Reading Wisdom Yourself
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Argument Myself Understand Yourself
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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End God Greatness Guide Motivational Original Spring
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Better Cheating Happiness Suffering Trust Wrong
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

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