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1    1|        and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by
2    1|       by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared
3    1|  compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,
4    1|        tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted
5    1|   cashiered at last by our own opinion, as well as that of mankind.~ ~
6    3|   through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,
7    7| himself and expressing his own opinion, a phenomenon so rare that
8   12|      men. Thus far I am of the opinion of Chaucer's nun, who~ ~
9   12|      practice is "nowhere," my opinion is here. Nevertheless I