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“My congratulations to you, sir. 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. ”
― Samuel Johnson

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
― Samuel Johnson