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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Claret is the...
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Source: Quoted in: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 7 April 1779 (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.