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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
When I was...
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Source: Letter, 9 Jan. 1758 (published in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 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.