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Author - Samuel Johnson
Quotes by : Samuel Johnson
Secret
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
life
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
writers
Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strike....
writers
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged....
death
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.....
present
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.....
royalty
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
writing
Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts....
forgiveness
Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
strength
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant.....
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