"And you know--as I have learned since, as she knew all the time,--that 'faience' is used as a generic term! Well! I have had my lesson in talking of what I do not understand.

How could she have answered me so civilly and gravely!" I was too sorry for her to put into words the thought of the proverbial answer, "according to his folly." The incident had its moral and example for me too.

The recollection has beaten back many a vehement protest against egregious absurdity, and helped me endure with apparent composure even the patronage of fools.
After all, there are so many mistakes made by other people that affect nobody but themselves that Don Quixote might tire of tilting at them.
The more asinine the speaker the louder is his bray, and the more surely do we encounter him in social and domestic haunts.

To dispute with him is to strengthen the stakes, and twist harder the cords of his belief in himself.

In recognizing the truth, so humiliating to human reason, one wonders what effect would be produced by a determined regime of letting alone.