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As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth
of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So
it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he
would bring home knowledge.
Topic: Traveling
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place
where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is
known.
Topic: Traveling
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and,
instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Topic: Traveling
Source: Piozzi's Johnsoniana (154)
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Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
Topic: Traveling
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes
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There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Topic: Trifles
Source: None
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Topic: Trust
Source: None
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The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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A vow is a snare for sin.
Topic: Vow
Source: None
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We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the
potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Topic: Wealth
Source: remark on the sale of Thrale's Brewery, 1781
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All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
Topic: Will
Source: Boswell's Life
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This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but
I find he is only a wit among lords.
Topic: Wit
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
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This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
Topic: Worth
Source: London (l. 175)
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Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Topic: Writer
Source: None
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I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which
he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man
who is zealous for nothing."
Topic: Zeal
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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