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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
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If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced if of ill-fortune, to be pitied and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
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There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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