Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
The men who loom most largely in the public eye are men of little or no personality. They are marionettes who dance to the wires pulled by a master hand.
So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture tell them that God bids us do good for evil; and thus I clothe my naked villany with old odd ends stol’n forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil.
