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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
It was his...
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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
Source: Lives of the English Poets, Savage (1779 --81), of the poet Richard Savage.
-- 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.