A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
I married beneath me. All women do.
The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"