Assumptions are dangerous things.
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
... nothing is so boring as devotion.
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.