Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Many try to force the past to change.
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.