What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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