What if a thing was written in Paris or in Pekin ?--that makes no difference.

Everybody in those cities, or almost everybody, has his counterpart here, and in all large places .-- You never studied AVERAGES as I have had occasion to.
I'll tell you how I came to know so much about averages.

There was one season when I was lecturing, commonly, five evenings in the week, through most of the lecturing period.

I soon found, as most speakers do, that it was pleasanter to work one lecture than to keep several in hand.
-- Don't you get sick to death of one lecture ?--said the landlady's daughter,--who had a new dress on that day, and was in spirits for conversation.
I was going to talk about averages,--I said,--but I have no objection to telling you about lectures, to begin with.
A new lecture always has a certain excitement connected with its delivery.

One thinks well of it, as of most things fresh from his mind.