Me-Factor

Oscar Wilde the wit had become a celebrity and was beginning to outshine Whistler the painter. His erstwhile mentor found it irritating. Once they came across one another after the newspapers had printed some news over their rivalry. Whistler having brusquely dismissed the gossip, said that whenever they got together they spoke only over one subject, indicating himself. The Irish wit genially retorted, ”That maybe, Jamie, but I think only of myself.”
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