Complimenting Samuel Johnson* on his great Dictionary of the English Language, two ladies praised his omission of all naughty words.  "What!  My dears!  Then you have been looking for them?"  exclaimed Johnson.  The ladies, deeply embarrassed, changed the subject.
[How times have changed! lbw]

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, 1985.

*English writer, essayist, moralist (1709 - 1784)