Choose Me a Husband/ William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own […]

Born Without Teeth/ Mark Twain

  I will remark here, in passing, that certain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly well known in history by their aliases, that I have not felt it to be worthwhile to dwell upon them … . It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own […]