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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Samuel Johnson

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Effort Happiness Reading Writing
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Art Himself Person Photograph Work
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Love Reading Wisdom Yourself
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Courage Hope Inspirational One Liner
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Choice Liberty Nation Starve Work
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Fools Love Wisdom
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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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
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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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well

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