'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further. Emmett Kelly
'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet and capable of preserving a secret.'
- Hello! Look here, you old crock, why did you throw the good man in prison? Is he a horse thief or something? He's had three decorations! You can't arrest such a hero!
2 October.--I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield's room, and gave him instructions that if there should be anything strange he was to call me.
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. Elias Canetti
A "vulnerable" man was kept as a slave by family members who tortured him for his benefit money before his headless body was dumped in a lake, a court hears.
