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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Ah! Sir,...
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 21 July 1763 (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.