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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find 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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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