Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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