It would add much to human happiness, if an art co · Samuel Johnson

Memory is like all other human powers, with which

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive ... that the mind might perform its functions without incumbrance, and the pasLmight no longer encroach upon the present.

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Samuel Johnson

1709-09-18 — 1784-12-13 · Lichfield

Samuel Johnson was a prominent 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary figures in British history, famous for his 'A Dictionary of the English Language'.