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Quote by Samuel Johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is f

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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Letters (writing)
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Samuel Johnson
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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Hunting
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Wisdom
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Wisdom

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. – Stanford Moore

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Wisdom

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. – Paul Ricoeur

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Wisdom

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. – Ray Kurzweil

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Wisdom

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Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. – Aron Ralston

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Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. – Jason Ritter

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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. – Attributed to James A. Garfield

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Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven. – Lenny Rubenstein

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