The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.