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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Source: Quoted in: Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, Anecdotes by William Seward (ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1897).
-- 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.