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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Make Up Tears Weapon Woman
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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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
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
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Desire Enjoyment Himself Man Philosophy Poor Rich Wisdom
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Adversity Escape Remember Suffering
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
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
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
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
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue
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

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