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“ The subject of which you know least is the subject of which you are most mistaken in believing that you have knowledge. Suppose that A has no cigars and no delusions, and that B has a box of the "Reina Putrida," at thirteen to the shilling, and intends to smoke them. Then B is more really without cigars than A is—at any rate in the judgment of the thinking smoker. If you know absolutely nothing of hydrostatics, and have your own opinion of what the Government ought to do, the probability is that you know much less of what the Government ought to do than you know of hydrostatics. ”

“ In a thousand ways he has done me harm. He has been guilty of the most culpable and unbusiness-like neglect where my interests were concerned. When a man treats you like that it is certainly better not to continue to know him. ”

“ What I do say is that there is nothing in the world about which I have more illusions, consequently there is nothing in the world of which I really know less. This is the more surprising because we nave been together all our lives ”