Famous Quotes | A transition from an author’s...

A transition from an author’s books to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but, when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Rambler, no. 14 (1750).

Categories: Author, Lexicographer, Speech, Writers And Writing

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