Truth allows no choice.
SAMUEL JOHNSONKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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