Samuel Johnson Quotes
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small expense
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English Writer & Lexicographer, 60th Idler
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Critics, pundits, and social and program evaluators, have—as Deleuze observes—a major vested interest in the outcome of the evaluations—namely their own economic and influential existence. That alone should cast suspicion on all evaluations,
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
