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" Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. "

Samuel Johnson

Truth

Gold

Knowledge

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Will

" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "

" No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. "

" No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "

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Human

" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "

" It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. "

" The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. "

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Friendship

Roast

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

" Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. "

" 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. "

" All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. "

" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. "

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Clear

Prove

" Love is only one of many passions. "

" The future is purchased by the present. "

" Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. "

" We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. "

" Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. "

" It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. "

" Words are but the signs of ideas. "

" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "

" 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. "

" No man was ever great by imitation. "

" If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? "