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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
It is the...
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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Source: Quoted in: Anecdotes by William Seward, in European Magazine (1795; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1897, p. 301).
-- 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.