The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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