My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.
Dorothy DunnettVersatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and youโre a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.
Dorothy DunnettSo she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. โExcuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
Dorothy Dunnett