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Readers Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- 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…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
- Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
- The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
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