Famous Quotes | I have protracted my work till...

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Dictionary of the English Language, preface (1755).

Categories: Author, Indifference, Lexicographer

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