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Authors Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
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- It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger
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