Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSONTruth allows no choice.
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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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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