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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
There are some...
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 12 April 1776 (1791).
-- 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.