Samuel Johnson

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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.

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

truth

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

truth

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Samuel Johnson

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Samuel Johnson

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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Samuel Johnson

truth

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

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