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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Books Choice Friendship
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Animal Home Mathematics
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Coward Patriot Refuge
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Make Up Tears Weapon Woman
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Bed Coward Night Sleep Thinking
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Heart Talk Trust Voice Yourself
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Happiness Nature
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Consistence Power Steal Theft
Grief is a species of idleness.
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Born Children Grief One Liner Wasted Time
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man

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