Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Samuel Johnson
Life
A quote by Samuel Johnson
From the source
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. ii. Chap. ii. 1755.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.