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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Samuel Johnson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
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
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Better Cheating Happiness Suffering Trust Wrong
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
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
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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Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
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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Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Choice Liberty Nation Starve Work
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Information Man Reminder
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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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Bed Coward Night Sleep Thinking
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
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Coward Patriot Refuge

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

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