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"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." -
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Samuel Johnson
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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."
"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."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
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."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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