A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAll 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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