For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

The subject is becoming a political banana skin.

It was a ridiculous scheme, both as to the force which was to take the ship, and her employment as a buccaneer -- the state of the ocean and of navigation being such at that time as to leave a sea-rover, pursued as he would be by the fleets of all nations, without a sea to sail in, without a coast to land on, without a rock or corner to hide in.