The cobbler doubts the stability of every shoe.

So at last it grew to be the case with Thackeray.

There was more hope that the city should be saved because of its ten just men, than for society, if society were to depend on ten who were not snobs.

All this arose from the keenness of his vision into that which was really mean.

But that keenness became so aggravated by the intenseness of his search that the slightest speck of dust became to his eyes as a foul stain.