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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Johnson :: View Quote View Quote "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Johnson Listed in: Writing Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 2.5  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." "Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting." "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment." Top 5 quotes from Writing "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." "Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man." "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." "If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

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