I'm regularly "hoist on my own petard," as they say in the newspapers.

I'm a curate and no mistake.

You did it with a turn of the wrist, without striking out: and I like neat boxing.

I bear no malice when I'm floored neatly.' Five minutes after he had spoken it would have been impossible for me to tell him that my simplicity and not my cleverness had caused his overthrow.

From this I learnt that simplicity is the keenest weapon and a beautiful refinement of cleverness; and I affected it extremely.