A man who is tired of London is tired of life.Samuel Johnson
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
— SAMUEL JOHNSON
Writer and lexicographer · 1709 – 1784
Samuel Johnson was an English writer who compiled the first great Dictionary of the English Language in 1755. Poet, essayist and the most quoted conversationalist of his age, his life was immortalised in Boswell's famous biography.
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