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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
The natural flights...
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Source: Rambler, no. 2 (London, 24 March 1750; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3, 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.