How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.