"I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment."

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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

— O. Henry