O preach long, loud, and damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
Selden, Table Talk.
T'S such a very serious thing
To be a funny man!
John Godfrey Saxe, Poems.
BORE cannot be a good man: for the better he is, the greater bore he will be, and the more hateful he will make goodness.
Lady Ashburton, apud Lord Houghton.
