9/39 Do you suppose this is a principle the men of sense will admire you for? I do suppose that when I suffer any man to like my person, he shan't dare to find fault with my principle. But men of sense are not so easilly humbled. One has ten thousand times the trouble with a coxcomb....The men of sense, my dear, make the best fools in the world: their sincerity and good breeding throws them so entirely into one's power, and gives one such an agreeable thirst of using them ill, to show that power--'tis impossible not to quench it." * * * * * Compare this bristling dialogue with the inane stuff that too often passes for comedy nowadays, and one finds all the difference between real humour and flippancy. |