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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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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. – Robert Collier

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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. – Franz Grillparzer

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Its hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of whats going on. Thats why Im doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. – Cybill Shepherd

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams

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I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMWs mostly – for myself and my family. – Tom Felton

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Weve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. – Gloria Steinem

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Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology. – V. N. Volosinov

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