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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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Cowardice/Weakness
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Samuel Johnson
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Labor
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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Writing

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

Category:
Writing

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

Category:
Writing

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. – Katharine Hepburn

Category:
funny

Man maketh a death which Nature never made. – Edward Young

Category:
Environment

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. – Walt Whitman

Category:
Censorship

Its like our relationship is always about the other side that isnt the obvious side. – Rosario Dawson

Category:
relationship