Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
1709–1784, born in Lichfield

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[S]uch is the delight of mental superiority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.

The Rambler, No. 150 (Sat 24 August 1751). See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 3 (2006)

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