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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
The return of...
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Source: Letter, 21 Sept. 1773, to Hester Thrale (published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. 1, no. 326, ed. by R. W. Chapman, 1952). Johnson added, I can now look back upon threescore and four years,
-- 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.