Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The 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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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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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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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