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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things f

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

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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s

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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. – Miguel de Cervantes

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