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

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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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Reality
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Writing
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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great
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. – Victor Hugo

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Time

Right now Im having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. – Steven Wright

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Time

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? – Tillie Olsen

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. – Denis Diderot

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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. Thats but a hint of what well feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be at home in a way that defies description. – Charles Stanley

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Shouldnt Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership? – Bill Kristol

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Leadership

A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. – Proverb

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Equality