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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMy dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Truth allows no choice.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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