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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Do not discourage...
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite. . .
Source: Quoted in: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786; repr.in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 1, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1891, pp. 251 --52).
-- 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.