Once saying if the federal government were to go out of business, the common run of people would not detect the difference.

曾经有人说过，如果联邦政府破产，一般人是察觉不到差别的。

He adds humbly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully. ”

他谦虚地补充说，或许他" 和普通人相比，更能注意到他们容易忽略的细节，更能对这些细节进行仔细观察" 。