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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. . . . He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Source: The Idler, no. 60, in Universal Chronicle (London, 9 June 1759; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, Yale Edition, vol. 2, ed. by W. J. Bate, John M. Bullitt, and L. F. Powell, 1963).
-- 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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