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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
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«Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true»
«Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.»
«Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.»
«Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.»
«Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it.»
«Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us.»
«The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.»
«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. . .»
«There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.»
«To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.»
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