Falstaff, a drunken cowardly entertaining reprobate,
comes alive as a mass of human frailties:
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man,
and therefore more frailty.
Give
me a cup of sack. I am a rogue if I drunk
today.
I am
not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit
is in other men.
-- William Shakespeare's Henry IV
He is
aware of how others see him and seems to be
comfortable with his reputation.
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