Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.