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Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

΄Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one΄s mouth and remove all doubt.

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

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.



Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

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