All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.


The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets, concluded. Miscellaneous lives (ed. 1787)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public...

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public...

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public...

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public...