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Samuel Johnson
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Samuel Johnson
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Henry James
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million … but they are, singly or together, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
