That for the oil of Talc, dare spend / More than citizens dare lend / Them, or all their officers - Ben Jonson, To Sickness

In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history.

Other races walk upside down, on all fours; consist of bearded or hairy women (the Gorillae); have only one eye (like Homer’s Cyclops); or have horns and tails (the Gegetones or Gorgones, clearly hinting at our later chief villain, Satan, who gains these attributes in the sixth–eighth centuries).

The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.