Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. -Samuel Johnson

 

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.


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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

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Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel.

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