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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
I am always...
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides, 18 Sept. 1773 (1785).
-- 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.