Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.