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title: "50 Samuel Johnson Quotes by 43 authors"
description: "Browse 50 Samuel Johnson quotes by 43 authors. Discover the best Samuel Johnson sayings and thoughts."
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> [The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tobias-smollett/the-great-cham-of-literature-samuel-johnson/)

[Tobias Smollett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tobias-smollett/)

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> [“(“No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money,” Samuel Johnson said.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-karr/no-man-but-a-blockhead-ever-wrote-for-any-cause-but-money-samuel/)

[Mary Karr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-karr/)

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> [Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-dahlberg/perhaps-samuel-johnson-was-a-great-man-he-was-certainly-a-drumbling/)

[Edward Dahlberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-dahlberg/)

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> [“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ban-breathnach/to-be-happy-at-home-is-the-ultimate-result-of-all-ambition-samuel/)

[Sarah Ban Breathnach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ban-breathnach/)

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> [“Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: that Scotland has so few trees.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-davis/samuel-johnson-is-indignant-that-scotland-has-so-few-trees/)

[Lydia Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-davis/)

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> [“Samuel Johnson said, ‘It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-humphrys/samuel-johnson-said-it-is-happier-to-be-sometimes-cheated-than-not-to/)

[John Humphrys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-humphrys/)

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> [“Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-shields/samuel-johnson-a-book-should-either-allow-us-to-escape-existence-or/)

[David Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-shields/)

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> [“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." ~Samuel Johnson”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-leopold/the-chains-of-habit-are-generally-too-small-to-be-felt-until-they-are-2/)

[Scott Leopold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-leopold/)

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> [ \[Samuel\] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hester-lynch-piozzi/samuel-johnson-s-conversation-was-by-much-too-strong-for-a-person/)

[Hester Lynch Piozzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hester-lynch-piozzi/)

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> [“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-m-hallowell/to-let-friendship-die-away-by-negligence-and-silence-is-certainly-not-2/)

[Edward M. Hallowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-m-hallowell/)

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> [Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paras/nothing-will-ever-be-attempted-if-all-possible-objections-must-first/)

[Paras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paras/)

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> [“As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-m-grant/as-samuel-johnson-purportedly-wrote-the-true-measure-of-a-man-is-how/)

[Adam M. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-m-grant/)

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> [That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-laird/that-s-what-samuel-johnson-said-read-over-your-compositions-and/)

[Nick Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-laird/)

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> [“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-rubin/when-it-comes-to-fake-food-i-m-like-samuel-johnson-who-remarked-2/)

[Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-rubin/)

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> [Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/learn-the-leading-precognita-of-all-things-no-need-to-turn-over-leaf/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-josephson/i-think-samuel-johnson-had-it-right-when-he-observed-that-hope-is/)

[Michael Josephson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-josephson/)

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> [Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-gopnik/samuel-johnson-called-it-the-vanity-of-human-wishes-and-buddhists/)

[Alison Gopnik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-gopnik/)

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> [I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-saffo/i-think-it-was-samuel-johnson-who-said-there-are-two-kinds-of/)

[Paul Saffo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-saffo/)

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> [“The philosopher Berkley claimed that everything in the universe exists solely as a thought in the mind of God. In response to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-trachtenberg/the-philosopher-berkley-claimed-that-everything-in-the-universe/)

[Peter Trachtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-trachtenberg/)

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> [Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-rubin/say-no-only-when-it-really-matters-wear-a-bright-red-shirt-with/)

[Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-rubin/)

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> [“If death, mused the great thinker Dr. Samuel Johnson, is merely a gateway on the path from life into eternity, a portal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-harris/if-death-mused-the-great-thinker-dr-samuel-johnson-is-merely-a/)

[Tessa Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-harris/)

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> [“I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/i-hate-a-fellow-whom-pride-or-cowardice-or-laziness-drives-into-a/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [“There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England’s Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kump/there-are-many-famous-people-who-could-read-extremely-fast-it-was/)

[Peter Kump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kump/)

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> [“People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/people-are-unrealistically-optimistic-even-when-the-stakes-are-high/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholson-baker/the-fact-that-we-had-independently-decided-to-sweep-our-apartments-on/)

[Nicholson Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholson-baker/)

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> [I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/i-think-about-the-distinction-between-fiction-and-nonfiction-fiction/)

[Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-dyer/)

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> [“People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-h-thaler/people-are-unrealistically-optimistic-even-when-the-stakes-are-high-2/)

[Richard H. Thaler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-h-thaler/)

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> [ In comparing these two writers, he \[Samuel Johnson\] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-boswell/in-comparing-these-two-writers-he-samuel-johnson-used-this-expression/)

[James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-boswell/)

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> [“The essayist and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson famously once said, ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-perkins/the-essayist-and-lexicographer-dr-samuel-johnson-famously-once-said/)

[Sue Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-perkins/)

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> [“Keep it simple' wasn't always the right response. Many things that boosted my happiness also added complexity to my life. Having children.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-rubin/keep-it-simple-wasn-t-always-the-right-response-many-things-that/)

[Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-rubin/)

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> [ “Mr. Langton one day asked him \[Samuel Johnson\] how he had acquired so accurate a knowledge of Latin, in which, I believe,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-boswell/mr-langton-one-day-asked-him-samuel-johnson-how-he-had-acquired-so/)

[James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-boswell/)

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> [“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kory-stamper/after-bailey-came-samuel-johnson-his-cantankerousness-son-of-a-london/)

[Kory Stamper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kory-stamper/)

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> [“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1674-was-an-english-poet-prose/)

[John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/)

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> [“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics',…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-nozick/there-are-few-books-that-set-out-what-a-mature-person-can-believe/)

[Robert Nozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-nozick/)

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> [“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-metaphysical-poets-had-we-but-world-enough-and-time-this-coyness/)

[Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/)

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> [“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-distance-is-commonly-very-great-between-actual-performances-and/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-allen/during-the-samuel-johnson-days-they-had-big-men-enjoying-small-talk/)

[Fred Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-allen/)

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> [“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ram-dass/he-who-has-so-little-knowledge-of-human-nature-as-to-seek-happiness-2/)

[Ram Dass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ram-dass/)

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> [“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-covey/samuel-johnson-observed-the-fountain-of-content-must-spring-up-in-the/)

[Stephen R. Covey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-covey/)

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> [“Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-lane-greene/though-it-s-true-that-dictionary-maker-samuel-johnson-sometimes-seem/)

[Robert Lane Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-lane-greene/)

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                        "text": "Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.",
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                        "text": "“People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a statistic most people have heard. But around the time of the ceremony, almost all couples believe that there is approximately a zero percent chance that their marriage will end in divorce—even those who have already been divorced!10 (Second marriage, Samuel Johnson once quipped, “is the triumph of hope over experience.”) ========== Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Thaler, Richard”",
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                        "text": "I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction - and you see this particularly with something like the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - nonfiction we define in relation to what it's about. So, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's \"about\" Stalingrad. Or, here's a book by Claire Tomalin: it's \"about\" Charles Dickens.",
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                        "text": "“People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a statistic most people have heard. But around the time of the ceremony, almost all couples believe that there is approximately a zero percent chance that their marriage will end in divorce—even those who have already been divorced!10 (Second marriage, Samuel Johnson once quipped, “is the triumph of hope over experience.”)”",
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                        "text": "In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: \"that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate.\" This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.",
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                        "text": "“The essayist and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson famously once said, ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’ Well, Samuel, when a woman is tired of London, she usually tries to get away for the weekend – you know, get some perspective. She doesn’t tend to think of it as a precursor for ending her existence. My advice would be: stop being so absolutist in your thinking. Think about changing it up. Failing that, some of the modern SSRIs are really very good.”",
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                        "text": "“Keep it simple' wasn't always the right response. Many things that boosted my happiness also added complexity to my life. Having children. Learning to post videos to my website. Going to an out-of-town wedding. Applied too broadly, my impulse to 'Keep it simple' would impoverish me. 'Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings,' warned Samuel Johnson, 'let us therefore by cautious how we strip her.”",
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                        "text": "“Mr. Langton one day asked him [Samuel Johnson] how he had acquired so accurate a knowledge of Latin, in which, I believe, he was exceeded by no man of his time; he said, 'My master whipt me very well. Without that, Sir, I should have done nothing.' He told Mr. Langton, that while Hunter was flogging his boys unmercifully, he used to say, 'And this I do to save you from the gallows.' Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. 'I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terrour to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.”",
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                        "text": "“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his eloquent treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multiple societies and scholarly journals devoted to his study, Milton’s reputation remains as strong as ever in the 21st century. Very soon after his death – and continuing to the present day – Milton became the subject of partisan biographies, confirming T.S. Eliot’s belief that “of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions…making unlawful entry.” Milton’s radical, republican politics and heretical religious views, coupled with the perceived artificiality of his complicated Latinate verse, alienated Eliot and other readers; yet by dint of the overriding influence of his poetry and personality on subsequent generations—particularly the Romantic movement—the man whom Samuel Johnson disparaged as “an acrimonious and surly republican” must be counted one of the most significant writers and thinkers of all time. Source: Wikipedia”",
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                        "text": "“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics', Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations', Montaigne's 'Essays', and the essays of Samuel Johnson come to mind. Even with these, we do not simply accept everything that is said. The author's voice is never our own, exactly; the author's life is never our own. It would be disconcerting, anyway, to find that another person holds precisely our views, responds with our particular sensibility, and thinks the same things important. Still, we gain from these books, weighing and pondering ourselves in their light. These books - and also some less evidently grown-up ones, Thoreau's 'Walden' and Nietzsche's writings, for example - invite or urge us to think along with them, branching in our own directions. We are not identical with the books we read, but neither would we be the same without them.”",
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                        "text": "“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress) While theatre was the most public literary form of the period, poetry tended to be more personal, more private. Indeed, it was often published for only a limited circle of readers. This was true of Shakespeare's sonnets, as we have seen, and even more so for the Metaphysical poets, whose works were published mostly after their deaths. John Donne and George Herbert are the most significant of these poets. The term 'Metaphysical' was used to describe their work by the eighteenth-century critic, Samuel Johnson. He intended the adjective to be pejorative. He attacked the poets' lack of feeling, their learning, and the surprising range of images and comparisons they used. Donne and Herbert were certainly very innovative poets, but the term 'Metaphysical' is only a label, which is now used to describe the modern impact of their writing. After three centuries of neglect and disdain, the Metaphysical poets have come to be very highly regarded and have been influential in recent British poetry and criticism. They used contemporary scientific discoveries and theories, the topical debates on humanism, faith, and eternity, colloquial speech-based rhythms, and innovative verse forms, to examine the relationship between the individual, his God, and the universe. Their 'conceits', metaphors and images, paradoxes and intellectual complexity make the poems a constant challenge to the reader.”",
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                        "text": "“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure; all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties. From Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets series, published in 3 volumes between 1779 and 1781, on Alexander Pope”",
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