Boswell once asked Doctor Johnson if a certain classical picture was indecent. "No, sir," replied the doctor, “ but your question is.” “ I wish," spitefully said a lady to her rival, “ that I had some of your fat and you had some of my lean.”—“ Oh," was the nonchalant reply, “ that is because you think too much of me and too little of yourself."
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Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 1 September 1877, Page 7
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