If they'd told me at college that other people understood the integral calculus, and I didn't, then pride would have come in.

But in this case one wants first to be convinced that one has certain qualifications for this sort of business, and especially that all this business is of great importance.

" "What! do you mean to say it's not of importance?" said Sergey Ivanovitch, stung to the quick too at his brother's considering anything of no importance that interested him, and still more at his obviously paying little attention to what he was saying.