The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed…

Samuel Johnson
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The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers. ✨ William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed ... with Copious Annotations, p.53
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part. ✨ Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson, p.36
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Jam … ▶
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 166 (31 March 1772)
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebri … ▶
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 369 (18 April 1775)

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