We may as well wait, perhaps, till the circumstance occurs before we discuss the discretion of his behaviour thereupon. But in general and ordinary cases between friend and friend, where one of them is desired by the other to change a resolution of no very great moment, should you think ill of that person for complying with the desire, without waiting to be argued into it?"
Bingley. D’une façon générale, si quelqu’un sollicite un ami de modifier une résolution, d’ailleurs peu importante, blâmerez-vous ce dernier d’y consentir sans attendre qu’on lui donne des arguments capables de le persuader ?