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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Source: Quoted by Robert Barclay in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Appendix (ed. by John Wilson Croker, 1847).
-- 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.

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