And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer:
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
—Pope.
THE ARTIST—"Dubbins, the art critic, has slated my pictures unmercifully."
HIS FRIEND—"Oh, don't take any notice of that fellow; he has no ideas of his own—he only repeats like a parrot what everybody else is saying."
CULTURE
JIGGS—"Townsen can read three languages."