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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
I would advise...
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin.
Source: Remark to a warehouse packer. Quoted in: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 1, 1897, p. 301). Mrs. Piozzi also recorded that when Mr. Johnson fe
-- 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.