"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
― Samuel Johnson
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More From Samuel Johnson
- "A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."
- "Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."
- "He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
More In Great
- "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."― Benjamin Franklin
- "I have a great house."― Shia LaBeouf
- "I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it’s difficult for ‘poor people’ – poor white people, brown people – to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are."― Henry Louis Gates