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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits the other recreates and revives them.
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A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
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People seldom read a book which is given to them and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.
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There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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