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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.

Samuel Johnson

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
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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Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Desire Enjoyment Himself Man Philosophy Poor Rich Wisdom
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
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Kindness Ourselves Power
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Effort Happiness Reading Writing
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
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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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Knowledge Wisdom
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Conscience Deep Fear God Man Rise Shame Wisdom
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People

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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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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