Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

"Hell is paved with good intentions."

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"Hell is paved with good intentions."

"This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."

Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book."

Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

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