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Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784) born on Sep 18
English "lexicographer, critic". "He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and "Dictionary of the English Language," 1755."
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

R
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
A
"'Lexicographer, n.' A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge."
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"A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza."
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"A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Life of Johnson," (J. Boswell), Vol. III"
R: "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland," 'Col'"
A: 'Dictionary'
N: "Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 April 1775 (1791)."
K: "Rambler, no. 193 (London, 21 Jan. 1752; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 5, ed. by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss, 1969)."
   



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