The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
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Birth: | 18th September, 1709 |
Death: | 13th December, 1784 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Essayist, Poet |
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