Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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