I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thi... - Samuel Johnson
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."