Gail

“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“The Irish, being underdogs, necessarily knew more than their rulers. Theirs was the perennial problem of quickwitted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Sufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I have never understood why an intoxicated man feels the climax of insult is to hurl at you your name. Perhaps because he knows it is the one charge you cannot deny. But invariably before you escape, as though assured the words will cover your retreat with shame, he throws at you your full title.”
― Richard Harding Davis, Once Upon A Time