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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Life will not...
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 19 Sept. 1777 (1791). Johnson was advising Boswell not to refine in the education of his children.
-- 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.