[…] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.

“Did you tip him enough to do any good? They only work for tips.” “I didn’t know that,” I said. “I thought the hotel paid them something on the side.” “I mean they will only do something for you for a substantial tip. Most of them are rotten clean through.”

Going back to our theory about happiness, it might be fair to say that supermonogamy has made perfect the enemy of the good. If people are not happy they feel comfortable or entitled to look elsewhere; they no longer feel constrained by an initial choice.