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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Go into the...
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Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which one will respect you most.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- 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.