• Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.121