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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Attention and respect...
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
Source: Letter, 31 Dec. 1783, to Hester Thrale (published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3, no. 922, ed. by R. W. Chapman, 1952).
-- 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.