Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPeople need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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