Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.

The messenger from the Republics of the West now prostrated himself before the Statue. He informed it that two parties had, unfortunately, broken out in these countries, and threatened their speedy dissolution; that one party maintained that all human government originated in the wants of man; while the other party asserted that it originated in the desires of man. That these factions had become so violent and so universal that public business was altogether stopped,

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens