There's only one truth about war: people die.
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
A progeny of learning.
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.