Saturday, August 8, 2009

Daily Dose

From The Complete Rambler, by Samuel Johnson

THE WRITER OF ESSAYS

"The writer of essays escapes many embarrassments to which a large book would have exposed him: he seldom harasses his reason with long trains of consequences, dims his eyes with perusal of antiquated volumes, or burdens his memory with great accumulations of preparatory knowledge."

From Rambler # 184

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