| As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions? |
| Length is not an essential matter in the definition of an apologue. |
| And here, Socrates, I will leave the apologue and resume the argument. |
| Such an apologue is literally no exaggeration of the facts of English history. |
| Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue. |
| I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation. |
