Say then that he had good finance. Perhaps the turning point was that his wife did not die. After his wife died, his sorrow made it hard to complete various works. Though Johnson's books were incredibly popular, he took an age to write one. If his wife had not died he most likely would have been...
I was reading about Johnson on Wikipedia and discovered this:
"Beyond appearance, Adam Smith claimed that "Johnson knew more books than any man alive", while Edmund Burke thought that if Johnson were to join Parliament, he "certainly would have been the greatest speaker that ever was there"."...