She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.