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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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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