A woman is apt to confuse a man’s reluctance to marry with his reluctance to marry her.
Feb 012023
A woman is apt to confuse a man’s reluctance to marry with his reluctance to marry her.
The royal road to wealth is not to make money but to capture it.
Ostracism, as the Greeks understood, is the cruelest punishment.
If many hold one view, at no cost to themselves, and a few hold the contrary, at grievous expense, which carries more weight?
School penalizes the student mildly for knowing less than the examiners, and harshly for knowing more.
Whatever you have done, you are the sort of person who would do that.
The hunger remains as keen as ever for doctrine, for dogma, and any doctrine or dogma will do.
One can be ill-read on many books and well-read on a very few.
The knottiest problem in contemporary etiquette is what to say about your friend’s bad art.
Some of what you say should not sound like something you would say.