About Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man...
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There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.