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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Solitude is dangerous...
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. . . . Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
Source: Quoted in: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 1, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1891, p. 219).
-- 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.