Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. ✨ Parodying Henry Brooke, i…

Samuel Johnson
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. ✨ Parodying Henry Brooke, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 313 (June 1784).
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. ✨ Parodying Henry Brooke, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 313 (June 1784).

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