I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

“fantastic shadows of birds”

“I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin…”

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your …”

“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded…”