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"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
"But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it."
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
"Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem."
"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."
"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
"There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sire, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both."
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