The mining boomtown she remembered, was now a ghost town.

Financials generally pay high dividends.

It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.

At the time those were my sentiments too, but I soon discovered that I could not make common cause with my colleagues. After dinner I reported the conversation I had had with the professor of history, and again I said that I thought the political truth of democracy could be demonstrated. No such thing! Democracy could be saved by force of arms but it could not be proved by weight of reason.