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Updated: June 27, 2025
MR. SQUILLS. "I should not have thought, Mr. Caxton, that a book-man like you would be thus severe upon Knowledge." "Severe upon knowledge! Oh, Squills, Squills, Squills! Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer. Vinegar, which, exposed to the sun, breeds small serpents, or at best slimy eels, not comestible, once was wine.
Ah! you are the son of a book-man. It is not by books that men get on in the world, and enjoy life in the mean while." "I don't know that; but, my good fellow, you want to do both, get on in the world as fast as labor can, and enjoy life as pleasantly as indolence may.
Some subordinate character, with clear windpipe, all the better too, if he be a book-man, cognizant of History, Geography, and can explain everything, usually reads the Newspaper from some high seat behind backs, while his Majesty and Household dine. The same subordinate personage may be worth his place in the Tabagie, should his function happen to prove necessary there.
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