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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
They that have...
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They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence. . .
Source: Rambler, no. 112 (London, 13 April 1751; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 4, 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.