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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIII, 9 June 1900, Page 1083

<»ne of the greatest sorrows of famous personages is that it is impossibli to live up to the ideal opinion which the people whom they meet in the ordinary affairs of life have formed of t hem, say s t it-Bits.” ft is recorded that a certain liteiary man of high reputation had occasion to remark to ** waiter in the restaurant where he s.»nn linns liinclies: vVniter. tlii> beefsteak is very tough. The’waiter looked at him with a sorrowful expression and sighed deeply “Perhaps you will tell me." said the literary man. "why you si h m that fashion?" "Ah. sir." said the waiter. "I took you for a man who always said origin.il things, ami here you come ami say the same thing* that all the rest of them do.”