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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Money and time...
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and. . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Source: The Idler, no. 30, in Universal Chronicle (London, 11 Nov. 1758; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, ed. by W. J. Bate, John M. Bullitt, and L. F. Powell, 1963).
-- 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.