R. F. White, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3812… (19th and 20th century)
“ I stammered. "Only it occurred to me—er—that he might have—er—b-bought them ready-made." "Your knowledge of human nature must be singularly slight," replied the other icily, "if you imagine that a man without sufficient courage to be fitted by a tailor would be brave enough to wear ready-made clothes." ”
R. F. White, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3812… (19th and 20th century)
“ It is not his fauly if he is addicted to inexactitude. He was predestined to it. It is the irresistible influence of the day on which he was born. Every man born on this day must inevitably grow up to be a liar ”
R. F. White, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3812… (19th and 20th century)
“ Now let us consider another date—March 3rd. Several striking instances had led us to suspect that a person born on March 3rd comes into the world with an ineradicable passion for gambling. I will give you just one of these. A gentleman one day imagined he was seriously ill and called in a doctor. ”
