Aspire Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.”

Samuel Johnson

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The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

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Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

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