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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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