"Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but……" — Samuel Johnson
"Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."
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