Art Quote by Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

— Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions,and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

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