A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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