Question: he who makes a beast of himself origin?
Answer: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Quoted in "Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale" (1809) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. ... 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; also quoted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.