Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. ✨ Qu…

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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for May 1776)
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