He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.