I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
“I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.”
“In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.”