About Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784
English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.
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“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”
“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”