Samuel Johnson Quotes
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
Johnson, Samuel. "No. 164." The Rambler, vol. 5, J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 148.
4th Earl of Chesterfield. A Bill was being debated to control theaters and plays. At the time in England, playwrights would commonly write dialogue ridiculing politicians of the day. Lord Chesterfield was opposed to the proposed censorship.
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".
