She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind. Dubliners

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Never Give In!

The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary. Counsels and Maxims