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When Pigs Fly?One Sunday morning, Dr. Johnson's biographer James Boswell attended a Quaker meeting, where, for the first time, he heard a woman preaching. He later related the remarkable experience to Johnson. "Sir," Johnson remarked, "a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all."
[Trivia: Quaker Oats once removed Popeye the Sailorman from its packages of Instant Oats because the Society of Friends (the Quakers) objected to his use of violence to settle disputes.]
Johnson, Samuel ["the Great Cham of Literature"] (1709-1784) English journalist, critic, poet, lexicographer, founder of "The Rambler" [noted for his poems London (1738) and
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), his biography of Richard
Savage (1744), his tragedy Irene (1949), Rasselas
(1759), Lives of the
Poets (1779-81), and his pioneering Dictionary
(1747-55)]
[Sources: James Boswell, Life of Johnson]More Samuel Johnson anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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