I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle