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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Source: Quoted in: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 1, p. 327, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1891). Also quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samu
-- 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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