Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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