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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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Trust
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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. – Samuel Johnson

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

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Truth
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

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These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. – Frances Wright

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Knowledge

He who does not know one thing knows another – African Proverb

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Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things. – David Deutsch

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love. – Honore de Balzac

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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. – Ren

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Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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