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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Great abilites are...
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Great abilites are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree...
Source: Quoted in: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 July 1763 (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.