A policeman's lot is not a happy one
I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
Things are seldom what they seem.
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.