What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson
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More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
  1. I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

  2. Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

  3. It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

  4. The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

  5. I was good and bad, but never wicked.

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