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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
He that fails...
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He that fails in his endeavours after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Source: Adventurer, no. 99 (16 Oct. 1753; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, ed. by W. J. Bate, John M. Bullitt, and L. F. Powell, 1963).
-- 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.