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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
A Judge may...
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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 April 1775 (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.