When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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