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“ [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ”

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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

~ Samuel Johnson

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

~ Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

~ Samuel Johnson

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

~ Samuel Johnson