Superstition has its practical uses.
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.