It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy,...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy,...

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole...

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole...

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always...

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always...

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and...

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and...