It's not as bad as it sounds.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.