Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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