When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only — What a crib from Rochefoucauld!


Wisdom, Wit and Pathos (1884)


When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only — What a...

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only — What a...

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only — What a...

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only — What a...