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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Samuel Johnson

No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Instruction Need People
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Make Up Tears Weapon Woman
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Easy Excellence One Liner
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Knowledge Wisdom
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Cheating Happiness Suffering Trust Wrong
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Angel Dangerous Fear Fools Knowledge
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Argument Reason Remove

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