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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Lawyers know life...
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Source: Said to the lawyer Oliver Edwards. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 17 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.