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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Sir, I do...
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 April 1772 (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.