One does not debate nature; one experiences nature. - Michael F. Flynn

The nag is as fat as a monk—and will stop to eat at every chance, so the resemblance is no happenstance.

He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age.

What the prisoner said made some sense. He could see how technological progress—and social change with it—was coupled with free trade and the free exchange of ideas. Yet, he wasn’t at all sure that it was necessarily a good thing. There was a lot to be said for stability and continuity.