“Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.” PeopleIfsWellsFactsSinPayTroubleTreatsLawyerPriestsConsolation Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.” PersonsSoulFactsSufferingNaturalFailingEffectsTreatsAssumingTendenciesMisfortunesUnfortunateCatastropheVocation Book:War and the Iliad Source: War and the Iliad
“Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.” FeelsBelieveMayMadeIdeasFactsDesireWomenEmotionSpringTreatsEnjoyedSatisfyingTendernessExhaustedUnlikelyLiableSatedDeep Emotions Book:Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'