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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
No place affords...
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a library.
Source: Rambler, no. 106 (London, 23 March 1751; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 4, ed. by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss, 1969).
-- 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.