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Samuel Johnson
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# · Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
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