Samuel Johnson Quotes
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English Writer & Lexicographer, J. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.d. April 7, 1776
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60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
The crisis of inequality of income and wealth has occurred seven times in American history.
He was writing about America and many of the industrial democracies who at the time, as a result of globalziation, technology, government action and inaction, and other factors, had gone through a 30 year period of increasing disparities.
This was one of his great fundamental questions of mankind which his research began to answer.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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".
