I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo. - Jack Vance

Money lost, little lost.
Honor lost, much lost.
Pluck lost, all lost.

Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of nuisance and over the verge of turpitude.

“Don’t you think it’s a bit—well, intense? Are people really interested in these matters?”
“If not they should be.”
“Easily said, but it’s no way to run a magazine. People don’t want to really understand anything; they want to think they have learned without the necessity of application.”