Here's my favorite bit: I was recently reading in a London paper an account of a like philosophic pauper who was kicked out of a cheap boarding-house because h

Here's my favorite bit: I was recently reading in a London paper an account of a like philosophic pauper who was kicked out of a cheap boarding-house because he could not pay his bill, but he had a roll of papers sticking out of his coat pocket, which, upon examination, proved to be his plan for paying off the national debt of England without the aid of a penny.