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«It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next»
«There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible»
«She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken, than a shoemaker thinks of the skin, out of which the piece of leather, of which he is making a pair of shoes, is cut»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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leather, piece of leather, play out, shoemaker, shoemakers
«Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct»
«Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties»
«It often happens that those who in their lives were applauded and admired, are laid at last in the ground without the common honor of a stone; because by those excellences with which many were delighted, none had been obliged, and, though they had ma»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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admired, applauded, common ground, delighted
«Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see»
«Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves»
«A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation»
«Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation»
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