stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.