[WT Sharpe]

.....All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
..........— Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), Russian writer, philosopher and social activist. Anna Karenina (1875–1877), Pt. I, ch. 1.


.....O, what a tangled web we weave,
.....When first we practise to deceive!
..........— Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Scottish historical novelist and poet. Marmion (first published in 1808), Canto VI. Stanza 17.