I suppose it's got to be so, but it certainly looks unjust--and silly." "I'm not sure the workers haven't the best of it," replied Arthur.

"They have the dinner; we have only the dessert; and I guess one gets tired of only desserts, no matter how great the variety." "It's a stupid world in lots of ways, isn't it ?" "Not so stupid as it used to be, when everybody said and thought it was as good as possible," replied he.

"You see, it's the people in the world that make it stupid.

For instance, do you suppose you and I, or anybody, would care for idling about and doing all sorts of things our better judgment tells us are inane, if it weren't that most of our fellow-beings are stupid enough to admire and envy that sort of thing, and that we are stupid enough to want to be admired and envied by stupid people ?" "Did you notice the Sandys's English butler ?" asked Adelaide.
"_Did_ I?
I'll bet he keeps every one in the Sandys family up to the mark." "That's it," continued Adelaide.

"He's a poor creature, dumb and ignorant.