Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

City wits, country humorists.