I am not kidding. I don't know why. (STRAKER: Oh, very well. All right. It ain't my business.) (impressively) I trust, Enry, that, as between employer and engineer, I shall always know how to keep my proper distance, and not intrude my private affairs on you. Even our business arrangements are subject to the approval of your Trade Union. But don't abuse your advantages. Let me remind you that Voltaire said that what was too silly to be said could be sung. (STRAKER: It wasn't Voltaire: it was Bow Mar Shay.) I stand corrected: Beaumarchais of course. Now you seem to think that what is too delicate to be said can be whistled. Unfortunately your whistling, though melodious, is unintelligible. Come! there's nobody listening: neither my genteel relatives nor the secretary of your confounded Union. As man to man, Enry, why do you think that my friend has no chance with Miss Whitefield?

Tanner Monologue from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

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