Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
Birthday: September 18
Death: December 13
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
source: Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)
topic: Carpe Diem, Men, Focus, Fortnight