Quote #50

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

More from Samuel Johnson

  1. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
  2. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
  3. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; no…
  4. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
  5. Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
  6. No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
  7. He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and reme…
  8. No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

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