06 March 2023

A journey through Lent 2023
with Samuel Johnson (13)

Wise words from Samuel Johnson once on a chalkboard in the Hedgehog Vintage Inn in Lichfield (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Patrick Comerford

During Lent this year, I am taking time each morning to reflect on words from Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the Lichfield-born lexicographer and writer who compiled the first authoritative English-language dictionary.

Over the past year, since I moved here, I have been making some new friends in Stony Stratford. I am reminded of words from Samuel Johnson I once saw on a chalkboard in the Hedgehog Vintage Inn in Lichfield, and that are ascribed to Johnson by his biographer James Boswell in his Life:

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Continued tomorrow

Yesterday’s reflection

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