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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
If a man...
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 3 April 1776 (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.