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Virtue is too often merely local.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson

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We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
Gullibility
Samuel Johnson

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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Temptation
Samuel Johnson

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Imagination
Samuel Johnson

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Memory
Samuel Johnson

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Effort
Samuel Johnson

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Whatever you have spend less.
Money
Samuel Johnson

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Focus
Samuel Johnson

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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Tragedies
Samuel Johnson

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

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When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Speculation
Samuel Johnson

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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Grief
Samuel Johnson

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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson

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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Night
Samuel Johnson

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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Reform
Samuel Johnson

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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson

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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Travel and Tourism
Samuel Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun