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"Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!"
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Samuel JohnsonA lady once asked him how he came to define pastern, the knee of a hor — Samuel Johnson
"A lady once asked him how he came to define pastern, the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, "Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance."
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Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictiona
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