One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.