Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
The House of the Seven Gables
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It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
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