A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.
It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.