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“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
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“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
― Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
― Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
― Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
― Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
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