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

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

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

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

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so...

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on...

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not...

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not...

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

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

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community,...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community,...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I...

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I...

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.