Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Samuel Johnson
Born: September 18, 1709
Died: December 13, 1784 (aged 75)
Bio: Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Known for:
- The works of Samuel Johnson (1710)
- A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
- Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779)
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