Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
Background
- Educated at
- Stanford University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Welton L. Lee
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Trending topics shown first"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."
"A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the c…"
"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence."
"A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say."
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1709
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Birth1784
Died
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