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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Depend upon it...
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1780 entry (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.