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Literacy Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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