It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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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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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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