The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing and often paradoxically it is literature that suffers for it.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Offspring the due performance on religious rites faithful service highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself depend on one's wife alone.

Never say never but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.