The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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