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How many assistants helped Samuel Johnson copy quotations for A Dictionary of the English Language?
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1756; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Johnson employed six amanuenses to assist him in copying quotations for his A Dictionary of the English Language.12