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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
I would rather...
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Source: 26 Mar 1779; in Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, 1791.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.