How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.