Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
SAMUEL JOHNSONHe who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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 true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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