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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
In my early...
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. I
-- 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.