“That it is every man's interest to be pleased will need little proof: that it is his interest to please others experience will inform him.”
About Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709–13 December 1784
Samuel Johnson stands as one of the most imposing and fascinating figures in the history of English literature, a man whose physical bulk was matched only by the magnitude of his intellectual achievements and the breadth of his influence on the language itself. Born on September 18, 1709, in Lichfield, Staffordshire…