Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is. Our countrymen never recognize a description. They are more cunning than practical. She shook her head. The fashionable substitute for belief.
Scepticism is the beginning of faith.
I believe he thinks that Monmouth married me on purely scientific principles as the best specimen he could find of a modern butterfly. Usually because I come in at ten minutes to nine and tell her that I must be dressed by half-past eight. You should give her warning. Why, she invents hats for me. You don't, but it is nice of you to pretend that you do.