Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the >>

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilut >>

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man >>

Quotations about Imitation

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. >>

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, w >>

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. >>

No man was ever great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel