Maybe you and I might differ about what was honourable or what was false.

At all events, he was under our roof here, and if those nobs--or swells, I believe you call them--were like to be of use to any of us, we, the people that were entertaining them, were the first to be thought of; but your pleasant friend thought differently, and made such good use of his time that he cut you out altogether, Dick--he left you nowhere.' 'Really, sir, it never occurred to me till now to take that view of the situation.' 'Well, take that view of it now, and see how you'll like it! _You_ have your way to work in life as well as Mr.Atlee.From all I can judge, you're scarcely as well calculated to do it as he is.

You have not his smartness, you have not his brains, and you have not his impudence--and, 'faith, I'm much mistaken but it's the best of the three!' 'I don't perceive, sir, that we are necessarily pitted against each other at all.' 'Don't you?
Well, so much the worse for you if you don't see that every fellow that has nothing in the world is the rival of every other fellow that's in the same plight.

For every one that swims, ten, at least, sink.' 'Perhaps, sir, to begin, I never fully realised the first condition.

I was not exactly aware that I was without anything in the world.' 'I'm coming to that, if you'll have a little patience.