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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Attributed in a footnote in William Seward's Biographiana (1799), vol. I, p. 206, quoted in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 309, edited by George Birkbeck Hill

 

Samuel Johnson

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The work of an enthusiast who has watched and enjoyed cricket with an eye for detail and for character, for adventure and the human reflection beyond the ropes. It will, I fancy, be read with the same pleasure as it was written.

 

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Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge — theology, philosophy, history, art, science — to see the object as in itself it really is.

 

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