Samuel Johnson
1709-1784. British man of letters, one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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