I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little...

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little...

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does...

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does...

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

What ills from beauty spring

What ills from beauty spring

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention,...

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention,...

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from...

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.