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Richard Porson was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law. The Greek typeface Porson was based on his handwriting. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. December 1759 – 25. September 1808
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“To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible."”

Richard Porson

John Selby Watson, The Life of Richard Porson, M.A. (1861), p. 385.

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