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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Read over your...
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Source: quoting a college tutor, in James Boswell, 'Life of Johnson', April 30, 1773
-- 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.