M.A.than of all their other honors put together.
-- All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts." They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two which they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy?
I allow no "facts" at this table.

What! Because bread is good and wholesome and necessary and nourishing, shall you thrust a crumb into my windpipe while I am talking?
Do not these muscles of mine represent a hundred loaves of bread?
and is not my thought the abstract of ten thousand of these crumbs of truth with which you would choke off my speech?
[The above remark must be conditioned and qualified for the vulgar mind.

The reader will of course understand the precise amount of seasoning which must be added to it before he adopts it as one of the axioms of his life.

The speaker disclaims all responsibility for its abuse in incompetent hands.] This business of conversation is a very serious matter.

There are men that it weakens one to talk with an hour more than a day's fasting would do.