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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Literature, Dictionary
Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1835). “Johnson's English Dictionary”, p.559

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Samuel Johnson
Literature, Common
Dr John Campbell, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 418 n. 1 (1 July 1763)

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Samuel Johnson
Long, Literature, Lasts
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 449 (20 March 1776)

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Samuel Johnson
Literature, Raised
"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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