... from Dr. Johnson, who complimented the Irish by calling them "a fair people — they never speak well of one another." (I am half Irish, by the way, so I guees the good doctor may have been right.)
(Hat tip, by the way, goes to Today in Literature, which also reminds us that on this date in 1740 novelist Henry Fielding, "writing as Captain Hercules Vinegar... summoned poet laureate Colley Cibber to court, charged with the murder of the English language.")
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