Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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