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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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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But talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered.
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.