Quote by Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every oth

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson

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Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. – Sophocles

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I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

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Because youre not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. – Madeleine LEngle

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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

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You dont need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change. – Nicholas D. Kristof

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