The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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