A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhat is easy is seldom excellent.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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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 Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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