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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Books Choice Friendship
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
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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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Better Cheating Happiness Suffering Trust Wrong
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Consistence Power Steal Theft
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Easy Excellence One Liner
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Conscience Funny Marriage Wife
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Happiness Nature
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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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Art Attention Memories True
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Evil Man Misery Repeat

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