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
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While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
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No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults however flagrant and the easiness with which they pardon them however frequently repeated.
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