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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Every man who...
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 3 April 1775 (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.