The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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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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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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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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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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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