Samuel Johnson Quotes
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
The principle seems to have been generalized from the military field to include executive orders, diplomatic instructions, policy statements and the like.
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
