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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
If I had...
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 19 Sept. 1777 (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.