Creative Quotations from . . .
Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784) born on
Sep 18
English "lexicographer, critic". "He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and "Dictionary of the English Language," 1755."
 
   
F
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

R
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
A
"That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one."
N
"Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates."
K
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Quote Disk 1,2,3," by DBUG, 1991."
R: ""Rambler," no. 103 (London) Mar 1751."
A: "In "Life of Samuel Johnson," by James Boswell, entry for 1770, 1791."
N: "In "Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations," by John Daintith, 1989."
K: "26 Mar 1779; in "Life of Samuel Johnson," by James Boswell, 1791."
   



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