Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.