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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“A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
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