Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (3 Apr 1776)

Quoted in Boswell, <i>The Life of Samuel Johnson</i> (1791)


 
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