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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Samuel Johnson

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
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
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
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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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
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
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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Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
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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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Conscience Funny Marriage Wife
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
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
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

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