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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
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
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Original Poet Writing Yourself
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.
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Easy Excellence One Liner
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Coward Patriot Refuge
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Better Choice Death Live Rich
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Himself Man Pride Vice
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Conscience Funny Marriage Wife
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Fashion Opinion Reason

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