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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.

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

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

Don΄t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.



If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

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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