It cannot be too often repeated that I am not for sale. I was bought in 1921 and the transaction was final and conclusive. - Brian O'Nolan

I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.

"When things go wrong and will not come right,

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.