This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed, Boswell's Life, vol. ii, ch. i, 1919.
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This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.