It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. - Samuel Johnson
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [7 September O.S.] – 13 December 1784) was a British author, linguist and lexicographer. He is often referred to as simply Dr. Johnson in the history of literature and is regarded as the greatest man of letters in English history.
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Great Moralist
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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