Genuine respect for law is the result of possessing something which the law exerts itself to guard. Should it happen that you possess nothing, and th… - George Gissing

Ogni donna ha una maschera per tutti, tranne che per un uomo.

A few days ago her startled eye had caught an advertisement in the newspaper, headed 'Literary Machine'; had it then been invented at last, some automaton to supply the place of such poor creatures as herself to turn out books and articles? Alas! the machine was only one for holding volumes conveniently, that the work of literary manufacture might be physically lightened. But surely before long some Edison would make the true automaton; the problem must be comparatively such a simple one. Only to throw in a given number of old books, and have them reduced, blended, modernised into a single one for to-day's consumption.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice, was a characterising note of Mr Fadge’s periodical; his