“A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.”

— Samuel Johnson

Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 30, 1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English writer 1709–1784

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