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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
You may abuse...
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
Source: Referring to the qualifications needed to indulge in literary criticism. Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. I
-- 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.