Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries Collection, Volume One Quotes

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral philosophers who make it their province to discover and expound the glaringly obvious; and especially have they been concerned to enlarge upon that form of perverseness which engenders dislike of things offered under compulsion, and arouses desire of them as soon as their attainment becomes difficult or impossible.”
― R. Austin Freeman, Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries Collection, Volume One