. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. Go to Quote / Comment
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good. Go to Quote / Comment
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. Go to Quote / Comment
Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford." Go to Quote / Comment
I have accepted a pension as a reward which has been thought due to my literary merit; and now that I have this pension, I am the same man in ... Go to Quote / Comment