I didn't invent sin any more than I invented the telephone, and I think it's rather rough on a fellow who lived a quiet, retiring, pastoral life, minding his own business and staying home nights, to be held up to public reprobation for as long a time as I have." "It'll be all right in time," said Raleigh; "just wait--be patient, and your vindication will come.

Nobody thought much of the plays Bacon and I wrote for Shakespeare until Shakespeare 'd been dead a century." "Humph!" said Adam, gloomily.

"Wait! What have I been doing all this time?
I've waited all the time there's been so far, and until Mr.Barnum spoke as he did I haven't observed the slightest inclination on the part of anybody to rehabilitate my lost reputation.

Nor do I see exactly how it's to come about even if I do wait." "You might apply for an investigating committee to look into the charges," suggested an American politician, just over.

"Get your friends on it, and you'll be all right." "Better let sleeping dogs lie," said Blackstone.
"I intend to," said Adam.