It's A Lie, But Heaven Will Forgive

How Can You Shorten The Subject? That Stern Struggle With The Multiplication Table, For Many People Not Yet Ended In Victory, How Can You Make It Less? Square Root, As Obdurate As A Hardwood Stump In A Pasturenothing But Years Of Effort Can Extract It. You Can't Hurry The Process. Or Pass From Arithmetic To Algebra; You Can't Shoulder Your Way Past Quadratic Equations Or Ripple Through The Binomial Theorem. Instead, The Other Way; Your Feet Are Impeded In The Tangled Growth, Your Pace Slackens, You Sink And Fall Somewhere Near The Binomial Theorem With The Calculus In Sight On The Horizon.

Being A Specialist Is One Thing, Getting A Job Is Another.

Now, The Essence, The Very Spirit Of Christmas Is That We First Make Believe A Thing Is So, And Lo, It Presently Turns Out To Be So.

It Takes A Good Deal Of Physical Courage To Ride A Horse. This, However, I Have. I Get It At About Forty Cents A Flask, And Take It As Required.

American Politicians Do Anything For Money... English Politicians Take The Money And Won't Do Anything.