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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Samuel Johnson

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Easy Excellence One Liner
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove
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
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Enjoyment Happiness Man Money Save
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Love Reading Wisdom Yourself
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself
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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Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

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