I am omniverbivorous by nature and training.

Passing by such words as are poisonous, I can swallow most others, and chew such as I cannot swallow.
Dandies are not good for much, but they are good for something.
They invent or keep in circulation those conversational blank checks or counters just spoken of, which intellectual capitalists may sometimes find it worth their while to borrow of them.

They are useful, too, in keeping up the standard of dress, which, but for them, would deteriorate, and become, what some old fools would have it, a matter of convenience, and not of taste and art.

Yes, I like dandies well enough,--on one condition.
-- What is that, Sir ?--said the divinity-student.
-- That they have pluck.

I find that lies at the bottom of all true dandyism.