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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Any of us...
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Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), entry for 23 Sept. 1773.
-- 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.