The choice of a wife was a different thing altogether, he argued.

Perhaps he ought _not_ to have asked me for my opinion as to that.

But advice as to which of two trades a man would do best to select, surely any business man could give.

He said he had just been reading again my little book, _How to be Happy_, etc., and if the gentleman who wrote that could not decide between the respective merits of one particular laundry and one particular bar, both situate in the same city, well, then, all he had got to say was that knowledge and wisdom were clearly of no practical use in this world whatever.
"Well, it did seem a simple thing to advise a man about.

Surely as to a matter of this kind, I, a professed business man, must be able to form a sounder judgment than this poor pumpkin-headed lamb.