. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Go to Quote / Comment
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Go to Quote / Comment
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. Go to Quote / Comment
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Go to Quote / Comment
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. Go to Quote / Comment