But to wallow in your own phrases, to be rejoiced by the savour of your own shrewd pawkinesses, to feel your rhythm balanced and yet sober – that is a pleasure beyond most, and an inexpensive one at that.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Francis Joseph […] had discovered that under the Constitution of 1867 he could exercise greater actual power over his dominions than his Prussian “brother,” at Potsdam or, in a merely personal sense, than his other pliable and court-ridden “brother” at the St. Petersburg Winter Palace.

If the lamp is undervolted the burning rate of the carbons will decrease and they will tend to feed together, but as they approach each other the arc is shortened and the arc voltage drops.