A man must serve his time to every trade Save censureöcritics all are ready made. Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote.

-Rochdale
  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.63^6.

By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarling muse.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  London: a Poem, l.158^61.

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life†to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage or punished for neglect† Among these unhappy mortals isthe writer of dictionaries† Every other author mayaspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.