Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
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