Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”

“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?”

“The door, indeed, stood open as before; but the windows were still shuttered, t…”

“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells th…”