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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
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
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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Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Civilization Poor Test True
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
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
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Courage Hope Inspirational One Liner
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
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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Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Attempt Himself Life Man Possession Waste

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