The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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