human
By no means, returned the artist, smiling;
gpt
Wot _does_ it consist of, then?
human
In this--in holding firmly to opinions that have been taken hastily up, without the grounds on which they are founded having been duly weighed; and in refusing to consider these grounds in a philosophical (which means a rational) way, because the process would prove tiresome. The man who has comfortably settled all his opinions in this way very much resembles that `fool' of whom it is written that he `is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can _render a reason_.'
gpt
Well, but, to come back to the starting-point, said McLeod,
human
If you say that in the way of argument, I meet it with the counter proposition that many wise men _don't_ smoke.
gpt
Hah!