21/32 In your quality of a high-toned sharper, you will not have to pay the taxes on mud, or the poor, or lanterns, to which the bourgeois of Paris are subject." "So be it," said the poet. I am a vagabond, a thief, a sharper, a man of the knife, anything you please; and I am all that already, monsieur, King of Thunes, for I am a philosopher; _et omnia in philosophia, omnes in philosopho continentur_,--all things are contained in philosophy, all men in the philosopher, as you know." The King of Thunes scowled. One isn't a Jew because one is a bandit. I don't even steal any longer. |