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.

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.

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