Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThere must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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