For her, none of the advantages of canalling could make up for the horrors she found in spending a night on board a packet boat: 'I would never advise ladies to travel by canal, unless the boats are quite new and clean; or at least, far better kept than any that I saw or heard of on this canal.

When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.

It is confusion between having a fixed nature and having a fixed future that mismotivates the anguish over determinism.

My wingies tried to pep-talk me into believing that I could do better in the next test.