Samuel Johnson
Wikidi home Quotation Category Samuel Johnson
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St. Werburgh's Church
(1752-03-17, 1735-07-09, Elizabeth Porter, Marriage)
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.""When making your choices in life, do not forget to live."
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1709-09-18
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The Gentleman's Magazine
(Columnist, 1738-03)
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Johnson is regarded as one of the greatest men of letters in English history and he produced the first modern dictionary of the English language.
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lexicographer
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samuel johnson a fan was alexander pope
(Alexander Pope)
samuel johnson taught david garrick
(David Garrick)
samuel johnson a fan was denis diderot
(Denis Diderot)
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Johnson had poor health as a child, which left him with deficient eyesight and facial tics.
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After only a year at university he was forced to leave through lack of funds.
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Over the next five years he worked as a teacher in a grammar school, did some translating work and had essays published in a Birmingham newspaper.
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Francis Barber
(1752, 1784)
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1784-12-13
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