It is better to live rich than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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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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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.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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 wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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