PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.