“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
On Oliver Goldsmith1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, — in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.”
Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 11
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