If you get too many balls in the air, or are changing your focus too often, as one might argue President Clinton did in his first term, people have a hard time staying with you, much less following your leadership.

He was under the gun to finish the project quickly.

There is brass for all. Just home, paid off—and find my wife dead—and me saddled with the yowling kid. I’m off to sea again. Don’t see no sport widering here all bebothered with a baby.

Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant.