Quote by Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order t

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. – Samuel Johnson

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Death
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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Time

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin

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Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. – Joseph Addison

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Time

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. – John Steinbeck

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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three oclock in the morning, day after day. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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