The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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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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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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