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Wise Man Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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