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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Why, Sir, most...
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 26 Oct. 1769 (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.