Samuel Johnson

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. [Select]

{Categories: Art and Literature, Wisdom and Ignorance}

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. [Select]

{Category: Art and Literature}

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [Select]

{Categories: Vice and Virtue, Wisdom and Ignorance}

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. [Select]

{Categories: Art and Literature, Work and Recreation}

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