Quote #141
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
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