Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.