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 a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

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A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. – Samuel Johnson

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You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. – Sigmund Freud

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The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. – Marcel Proust

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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Theres nothing more important than our good health – thats our principal capital asset. – Arlen Specter

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There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and there’s another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely. – Rumi

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. – George Bernard Shaw

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