The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.
If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.
It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
People don't realise I have seriously bad blepharitis.
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
