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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Whoever thinks of...
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Source: Quoted in: Works, vol. 9, Apophthegms (ed. by John Hawkins, 1787 --89) and Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2 (ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1897, p. 19).
-- 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.