Throwback Thursday |“And Raising His Hand He Gave the Finger to Heaven”: Digs and Disses Throughout History | The Appendix
“The World, Sir, in general allows you to be an honest good kind of Man enough, but you lose the Merit of this Character by an avaricious, miserly disposition which makes you guilty of many little dirty actions quite unbecoming the Character of a Gentleman, or the station you act in. People, Sir, see through this shallow artifice, and pity and despise you for it.”