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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money»
«Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves»
«Every man, from the highest to the lowest station, ought to warm his heart and animate his endeavours with the hopes of being useful to the world, by advancing the art which it is his lot to exercise; and for that end he must necessarily consider th»
«To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough»
«Avarice is always poor»
«I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop»
«Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return»
«He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted»
«The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate»
«In science, which, being fixed and limited, admits of no other variety than such as arises from new methods of distribution, or new arts of illustration, the necessity of following the traces of our predecessors is indisputably evident; but there app»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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admits, Arts and Sciences, illustration, illustrations
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