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• People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them. -- S. Johnso
• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. -- Samuel Johnso
• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
  Samuel Johnson [Seward's 'Biographia', 1799]...
• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]...
• To do nothing is in every man's power. -- Samuel Johnso
• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnso
• The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
  -- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'...
• People are only heroes when they can't do anything else. -- Paul Claudel