No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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What is easy is seldom excellent.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and...

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and...

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.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

You know what a woman's curiosity is

You know what a woman's curiosity is

Sometimes the curiosity can kill the soul but leave the pain.

Sometimes the curiosity can kill the soul but leave the pain.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to...

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to...