Famous Quotes | His Majesty enquired if he was...
His Majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing. He answered, he was not, for he had pretty well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge.... Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. “I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well.”--Johnson observed to me, upon this, that “No man could have paid a handsomer compliment; and it was fit for a King to pay. It was decisive.” When asked ... whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, “No, Sir. When the King had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign.”- Samuel Johnson
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