“Sometimes a house has two histories. One that's less well known. One that people have an interest in keeping less well known.”

“It is a well–known fact that the greater a man is the less he has on his door–plate.”

“...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.”

“Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”

“While the traditional image of knights in armour is accurate and widely accepted, the equally representative image of knights wearing corsets and suspender belts is perhaps less well known.”

“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions and interactions of primary neutral corpuscles”