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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
You are much...
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labour, than when you give money merely in charity.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, May 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.