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Escritor e lexicógrafo inglês (1709–1784)
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Samuel Johnson, frequentemente chamado de Dr Johnson, foi um escritor e polímata inglês que fez contribuições duradouras como poeta, dramaturgo, ensaísta, moralista, crítico literário, sermonista, biógrafo, editor e lexicógrafo. A obra pela qual ele é mais conhecido é seu Dicionário da Língua Inglesa com 42.733 verbetes (1755). Por esta e outras contribuições para a língua inglesa, o Oxford Dictionary of National Biography o chamou de "provavelmente o homem de letras mais distinto da história inglesa".
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“To neglect at any time preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege, but to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.”
“The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.”
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”
“Brief biography at The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page”
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