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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears

Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Kindness Ourselves Power
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Love Reading Wisdom Yourself
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Fools Love Wisdom
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Original Poet Writing Yourself
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Attempt Himself Life Man Possession Waste
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
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Himself Man Pride Vice
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
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Art Attention Memories True
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Death Himself Live Man
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Object Possible Try
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Oneself People Talk Well
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Civilization Poor Test True

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