No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAlmost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The future is purchased by the present.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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