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Write Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by…
- You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot…
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
- A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
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