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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
A wise man...
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- 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.