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"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
"If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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