Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.