No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated? - Thomas Anstey Guthrie

These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.

I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.

Thou hast heard of her incomparable charms, and verily the ear may love before the eye.
"It may," admitted Horace, "but neither of my ears is the least in love at present."