{"quotes":[{"text":"Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attention","banal","boring","boring-book","carnal","cruel","cruelty","disease","dog","ego","egoism","egoist","egotist","epidemic","humilation","impolite","impoliteness","improper","insult","insults","lack-of-respect","lackadaisical","lazarus","madness","maltreatment","michael-bassey-johnson","mistake","popularity","pride","readers","rigid","shallow","stupidity","unfeeling","unpopularity","vanity","weird","writers","writing"],"id":125144,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["country","happiness","humanity","imposition","improper","independence","meanness","passion","the-world"],"id":174731,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}