Samuel Johnson Quote

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible


The Works: Together With His Life, And Notes On His Life Of The Poets (ed. 1787)


Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his...