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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
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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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Attempt Himself Life Man Possession Waste
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Art Himself Person Photograph Work
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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Crime Evil Himself Ignorance Learning Proper
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Death Himself Live Man
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
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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Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Fools Love Wisdom

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

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