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FRANK's Components of Creativity
A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to...
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A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.Source: Johnsonian Miscellanies,...
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.Source: Life of...
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. More about this quote...
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor...
A very unclubable man.Source: Referring to Sir John Hawkins. Life of Johnson, (J....
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right.Source: In...
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.Source: Life of Johnson, (J....
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a...
Admiration must be kept up by the novelty that at first produce it; . . . there must always be the impression that...
All government is ultimately and essentially absolute.Source: Taxation No...
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.Source: --...
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and...
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with...
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against...
Allow children to be happy their own way; for what better way will they ever find? More about this quote...
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.Source: Quoted in: James...
A vow is a snare for sin.Source: -- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784),...
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot...
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can...
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