Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand? - Christopher Paolini

What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-

False modesty is never admirable, and least of all among those who command others.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.