Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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