Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in...

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in...

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

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,...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is...

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

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

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

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

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

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

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as...

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as...

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.