Samuel Johnson Quotes
The Lives Of The Poets Are, On The Whole, The Best Of Johnson's Works. The Narratives Are As Entertaining As Any Novel. The Remarks On Life And On Human Nature Are Eminently Shrewd And Profound. The Criticisms Are Often Excellent, And, Even When Grossly And Provokingly Unjust, Well Deserve To Be Studied. For, However Erroneous They May Be, They Are Never Silly. They Are The Judgments Of A Mind Trammelled By Prejudice And Deficient In Sensibility, But Vigorous And Acute. They Therefore Generally Contain A Portion Of Valuable Truth Which Deserves To Be Separated From The Alloy; And, At The Very Worst, They Mean Something, A Praise To Which Much Of What Is Called Criticism In Our Time Has No Pretensions.
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