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Samuel Johnson — Portrait after a picture by Joshua Reynolds (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer

1709–1784

99 quotes, most often on Clever Jabs, Writing and Knowledge. Part of the Writers collection.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don’t let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1773)
- Comedy
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1775) p. 273
- Comedy
- Education
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (March 1759) p. 97
- Comedy
LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
- Comedy
- Writing

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