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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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The future is purchased by the present.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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