I once read that the Devil studied Basque for seven years and only learned two words. - L. Sprague de Camp

Verily, the great man finds gold and rubies more easily come by than true friendship.

Before sending my opinions forth across the chasm of surmise, I prefer to wait until they’re provided with a more solid bridge of fact.

Titled wenches make chancy wives, being full of hoity-toity snobbery. They fancy themselves beings of a superior species by virtue of blue blood, when ’tis well known that most noble houses were founded by successful banditti who frightened some weakling ruler into granting titles.