I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.


Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 6, edited by George Birkbeck Hill


I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.