Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.