THE ODD FELLOW'S BUDGET
... Plutarch used to say of men of small capacities put into great places, like statues set upon great pillars, are made to appear the less by their advancement. For a king to engage his people in a war, to carry off every little humour in the state, is like a physician ordering his patient to be fluxed for a pimple. An Irish fellow, vaunting of his birth and family, affirmed, 'That when lie came ...