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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Men know that...
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides (1785), 19 Sept. 1773.
-- 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.