Samuel Johnson Quote

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.


Johnsonian miscellanies (ed. Constable, 1966)


A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a...

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a...

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a...

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a...