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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Sir, your wife,...
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Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.
Source: An example of the customary badinage between travelers on the Thames. Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. IV
-- 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.