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Friday, May 8, 2009

Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: Experience or Books?

Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), his sister Nekayah, and a philosopher, Imlac, set off on a journey to discover the secret of a happy life.

Best quotes:

Marriage has man pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The journey chronicles the failures rather than the triumphs of the human race. Though the author Samuel Johnson was the author of many books, the moral of the story is that a lived life teaches more than books.
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