She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Perverseness is your whole defence.
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.