Sir,” said Dr. Johnson, “we have eaten an excellent dinner, we are a company of intelligent men--although I allow that we should have difficulty in proving that we are so if it became known that we sat down with a Scotchman--and now pray do not mar the self-satisfaction which intelligent men experience after dining, by making assertions based on ignorance and maintained by sophistry.” “Why, sir,” cried Goldsmith, “I doubt if the self-satisfaction of even the most intelligent of men--whom I take to be myself--is interfered with by any demonstration of an inferior intellect on the part of another.”…
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