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"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous." -
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Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Top 5 quotes from Morality
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble."
"I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
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