The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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