
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. —
Charles Farrar Browne

But since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly. —
Thomas Hardy

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. —
John Arbuthnot

streets, came nearer and nearer. —
Charles Dickens

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them. —
Robert Dallek