Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1754, p. 72 (n. 4)
Referring to critics
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"”
Book V, fable 3, line 1.
Fables
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