After the landlord had withdrawn in great indignation, Kipling asked for his bill, and he discovered that the last item was, "To impudence—three dollars."
He that has but impudence,
To all things has a fair pretence;
And puts among his wants but shame,
To all the world may lay his claim.
—Butler.
There is no better provision for life than impudence and a brazen face.—Menander.