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• Avarice: generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770...
• An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators.
  He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power....
• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife
  he is always proud of himself as the source of it. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butle
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...