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Volume Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes…
More Volume Quotes
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest… — James M. Barrie
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? — Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach
- Within the book and volume of thy brain... — William Shakespeare