How do you feel when you are enthusiastically enumerating her many lovable attributes, if the member of the household with the fiendish memory strikes in with-- "Oh, then you have changed your mind about her?
You remember you once said that you considered her the most affected mortal whom you had ever met." Under such provocation does not murder assume the guise of justifiable homicide?
There is no more bitter diet than to be forced to eat one's own words.
Never tell one of an opinion which he once held, if he has since had reason to alter his views.

There is no sin or weakness in changing one's mind.

It is a thing which all of us--if we except a few victims to pig-headed prejudice--do daily.

And, as a rule, we hate to be reminded of the fact.

Then why call the attention of others to the circumstances that they are guilty of the same weakness, if such it be?
Again I ask, _cui bono ?_.