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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is, in...
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Source: Rambler, no. 150 (London, 24 Aug. 1751; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 5, ed. by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss, 1969).
-- 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.