It might as well be said,--
'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman; his
opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, 'I
don't understand you, Sir:' upon which Johnson observed, 'Sir, I
have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.'
Talking to me of Horry Walpole, (as Horace late Earl of Orford was
often called,) Johnson allowed that he got together a great many curious
little things, and told them in an elegant manner. Mr. Walpole thought
Johnson a more amiable character after reading his Letters to Mrs.
Thrale: but never was one of the true admirers of that great man. We may
suppose a prejudice conceived, if he ever heard Johnson's account to Sir
George Staunton, that when he made the speeches in parliament for the
Gentleman's Magazine, 'he always took care to put Sir Robert Walpole
in the wrong, and to say every thing he could against the electorate
of Hanover.
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