Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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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 there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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