Samuel Johnson Quote

He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.


in The Idler no. 61 (9 June 1759)


He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.