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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnso
• Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• It is better to be always on your guard than to suffer once.
• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]...
• Example is always more effacious than precept. Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
• Safety is better than the wrong answer.
• Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.
  ' -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...