Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
SAMUEL JOHNSONNothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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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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Truth allows no choice.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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