Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.