Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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