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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
It is wonderful...
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 10 April 1778 (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.