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He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book, without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end. He had, from the irritability of his constitution, at all times, an impatience and hurry when he either read or wrote.
James Boswell • The Life of Samuel Johnson
Journalism, according to G.K. Chesterton in the 1920s, ‘largely consists in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive’.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
Alexander the Great: ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians.’
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

As a person “thinks within himself, so he is” (Prov. 23:7).
John MacArthur Jr. • Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (John Macarthur Study)
A line from the British literary giant Samuel Johnson floated through my mind.
Gretchen Rubin • Happier at Home
as I acquired a facility in recollecting, and was very assiduous in recording, his conversation, of which the extraordinary vigour and vivacity constituted one of the first features of his character;
James Boswell • The Life of Samuel Johnson
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."
— Samual Adams