Such, Theophrastus

An eccentric observer and humorist who analyses and comments upon the various types of people whom he meets in the "Nation of London". "Yet I am a bachelor, and the person I love best has never loved me, or known that I loved her. Though continually in society, and caring about the joys and sorrows of my neighbours, I feel myself, so far as my personal lot is concerned, uncared for and alone . . . Why should I expect to be admired ... I have done no services to my country beyond those of every peaceable orderly citizen; and as to intellectual contribution, my only published work was a failure so that I am spoken of to inquiring beholders as 'the author of a book you have probably not seen' . . . Then in some quarters my awkward feet are against me, the length of my upper lip, and an inveterate way I have of walking with my head foremost and my chin projecting."

<em>Impressions of Theophrastus Such</em>

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