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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Source: Quoted in: Richard Cumberland, Anecdotes (first published in Memoirs, 1807; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1897, p. 77).-- 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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