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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
At seventy-seven it...
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Source: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Col (1775; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 9, ed. by Mary Lascelles, 1971).
-- 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.