Cole Kendall
Cole Kendall
The following little anecdote which occurred when I quartered with a detachment of my regiment in the north of England is laughably illustrative of this fact. I was prevailed upon one day by a friend possessed of more money than taste as the sequel will show to accompany him he was going to purchase a pipe of wine of which commodity he considered himself a very efficient judge. Arrived at merchant's with the sagest and gravest face in the world he tasted sample after sample of the best and most expensive wines in the cellars but none of them were sufficiently good for his palate. One wanted flavour another body and so on as smacking his lips he successively gave the most knowing shakes of his head plainly intimating he was not to be misled in his choice Have you no better no dearer was his constant demand. At length the merchant placed in his hands what he informed him was a specimen of the best wine in his cellars at the same time naming a moderate price. My friend differed with me too thin for him too much acid not sufficiently rich &c.
He was departing when the obsequious merchant begged his pardon he had forgotten he had in his possession one pipe of unusually fine old port it was very dear and he could not afford to sell it for less than and he named an immense price. My friend's countenance brightened up as he spoke he tasted was in ecstasies at the vintage the very thing something like wine that and immediately ordered the pipe to be sent in. Was it the wine that influenced his choice? No. Was it the price? Yes Because it was dear and dear indeed it was for the circumstance afterwards got known through the merchant's foreman that he had purchased the same wine he had previously rejected paying just double the value. So much for prejudice I pray you avoid it.
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He was departing when the obsequious merchant begged his pardon he had forgotten he had in his possession one pipe of unusually fine old port it was very dear and he could not afford to sell it for less than and he named an immense price. My friend's countenance brightened up as he spoke he tasted was in ecstasies at the vintage the very thing something like wine that and immediately ordered the pipe to be sent in. Was it the wine that influenced his choice? No. Was it the price? Yes Because it was dear and dear indeed it was for the circumstance afterwards got known through the merchant's foreman that he had purchased the same wine he had previously rejected paying just double the value. So much for prejudice I pray you avoid it.
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