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Wordplay & Puns · 2026-11-01

We must have a weak spot or two in a

We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary-words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't care most for those flat pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium.--_O.W. Holmes_.

Classic source: Toaster's Handbook (1914), public-domain text.

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