Politics is a blood sport.
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.