You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool...

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool...

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...

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

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

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action...

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

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

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

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he...

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know...

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

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...