But what then? _Amicus Plato, magis amica veritas_; Teufelsdrockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the world; have feud or favor with no one,--save indeed the Devil, with whom, as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door-lintels _No cheating here_,--we thought it good to premise.英文原著 · 《Sartor Resartus》
Um, if we're claiming puffery, why do I need to waste all my time with these motions?美剧 · 《Suits》
I mean,you can't compete with me on an intellectual level So you're driven to animalistic puffery.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》