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Samuel Johnson

"Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true."

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"In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history."

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"In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude."

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"By reading, we will know the minds of great soul."

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"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

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"No one knows it all. Asking questions about the things that you don't know doesn't make you unintelligent. You don't have a million years on earth to make all the mistakes in the world and learn from them. You can learn from better informed people, and save yourself the headaches that come from making too many avoidable mistakes."

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