"Understrapping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what is the reason of it, but somehow or other, though I am when I have a mind pretty generally beloved, yet I never could get the art of commanding respect.—I imagine it is owing to my being deficient in what Sterne calls "that understrapping virtue of discretion."—I am so apt to a lapsus linguae, that I sometimes think the character of a certain great man I have read of somewhere is very much apropos to myself—that he was a compound of great talents ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham |
