Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSONExert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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The future is purchased by the present.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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