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Samuel Johnson

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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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Consistence Power Steal Theft
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Effort Happiness Reading Writing
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Books Choice Friendship
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Death Himself Live Man
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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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
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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Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Argument Myself Understand Yourself
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
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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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom

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