I don't know how many Selmas you have in your memory, she said. I have a lot in mine.

Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected.

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, […] but imperious, insolent, and cruel.

Over the years my enthusiasms for the job has weakened.