What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Source: Parody of a line from Shakespeare; In Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, 1783.
-- Samuel Foote, (Jan 27 1720-1777), English dramatist, comedian, author; The English Aristophanes was a one-legged comedian who starred in Lame Lover, 1770 and mimicked prominent persons; wrote The Minor, 1760.