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Volumes 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…
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
More Volumes Quotes
- The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. — James Agee
- Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill
- 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
- Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. — Ambrose Bierce
- 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
- Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the… — Benjamin Franklin
- That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities. — Jonathan Ive
- I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau
- The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is… — Unknown Author