Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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