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Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Source: Review of A Journal of Eight Days' Journey, in Literary Magazine, vol. 2, no. 13 (London, 1757; repr. in Works, vol. 6, 1825). Nonetheless, Johnson confessed in the article to being a hardened and s
-- 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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