Dr. Samuel Johnson

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"I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am."	Evil, Good, Knowledge
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Happiness, Hope, Joy
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."	Education, Evil, Good
"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."	Time
"Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday."	Men, Money, Time
"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."	Confidence
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."	Hope, Learning, Wishing
"Your aspirations are your possibilities."	Miscellaneous
"Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind."	Death, Hope, Sin
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."	Equality, Excellence, Honesty
"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."	Friends, Love
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."	Change, Effort, Happiness
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men."	Education, Honesty, Life
"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."	Friends, Love
"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."	Experience, Knowledge, Men
"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome."	Miscellaneous
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."	Ability, Happiness, Joy
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Equality	Evil	Excellence
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