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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Nature has given...
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Source: Letter, 18 Aug. 1763 (published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. 1, no. 157, ed. by R. W. Chapman, 1952).
-- 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.