Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. – Samuel Johnson
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXII, 1779