Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMy dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The future is purchased by the present.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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