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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
You find no...
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 20 Sept. 1777 (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.