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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Enjoyment Happiness Man Money Save
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
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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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Choice Liberty Nation Starve Work
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Heart Talk Trust Voice Yourself
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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