It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.
We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.