one should never assume anything

“But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.”

“Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy…”

“In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins m…”

“I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed…”