Only pious prigs care about when he chooses to get married, or to sign his children's birth certificates, or whatever. |
But any private club of prigs can be judges of whether he ought to be a citizen. |
So I could, presumably, freely take aim in its well-fenced online garden of gentility at prating, hypocritical Californian prigs, but not at prating, hypocritical American prigs. |
Let prigs and pedants, said he, keep all the nasty manufacture to themselves. |
But if thou art still a man, show thyself such, step forth, bilk the prigs, and return to thy confederate and dear friend. |
Prigs do not stand upon their heads, but levelly and beautifully upon their feet. |