Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story... - Laurence Sterne

I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

la CRUELDAD y la COBARDÍA, rufianes gemelos contratados e instigados en la oscuridad por la MALICIA, señalarán al unísono todos tus errores y flaquezas: — — sí, mi querido muchacho, hasta los mejores ahí somos vulnerables; —