Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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