“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.Quote by Samuel JohnsonTopics: Quotes about BooksShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...#Life, #Morality, #Wit
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...#Friendship
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...#Books, #Maturity, #Youth
An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place...#Books
Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told...#Books, #Drugs, #Understanding
