I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.