Classic Quotes by Dr. Lawrence J. Peter (1919-1990) US pop psychologist, writer
**A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. **
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**A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. **
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**A man convinced against his will is not convinced. **
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**A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. **
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**A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. **
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**Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. **
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**America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. **
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**America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. **
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**An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. **
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**An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. **
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*Classic Quotes by Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexcographer
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**I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. **
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**A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. **
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**A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. **
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**A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. **
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**A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. **
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**A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. **
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**A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. **
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**A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. **
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**A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. **