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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Some desire is...
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Source: Imlac, in The History of Rasselas, ch. 8 (1759).
-- 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.