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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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