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“ Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. ”

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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