'Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have
taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such
an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature,' i. 453.
SHIFT. 'As long as you have the use of your tongue and your pen,
never, Sir, be reduced to that shift,' iv. 190, n. 2.
SHINE. 'You shine, indeed, but it is by being ground,' iii. 386.
SHIP. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being
drowned,' i. 348; v. 137;
'It is getting on horseback in a ship' (Hierocles), v. 308.
SHIRT. 'It is like a shirt made for a man when he was a child and
enlarged always as he grows older,' v. 217.
SHIVER. 'Why do you shiver?' i. 462.
SHOE. 'Had the girl in _The Mourning Bride_ said she could not cast
her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would
not have aided the idea, but weakened it,' ii. 87.
SHOEMAKER. 'As I take my shoes from the shoemaker and my coat from
the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest' (Goldsmith), ii. 214.
SHOES. 'Mankind could do better without your books than without my
shoes,' i. 448.
SHOOT. 'You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another,'
ii. 450;
'You have _set_ him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,'
iv. 83.
SHOOTERS. 'Where there are many shooters, some will hit,' iii. 254.
SHORT-HAND. 'A long head is as good as short-hand' (Mrs. Thrale), iv.
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