"It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap."

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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his 'cap,' or head, and Al Cap is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

— Geraldine Brooks