"This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords."

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Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed, Boswell's Life, vol. ii, ch. i, 1919.

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Samuel Johnson was an 18th-century English writer and lexicographer, known for his influential work 'A Dictionary of the English Language' and his profound insights into human nature.

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