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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMen more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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