Crossword-Solution: SOPHIAS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

You may call these observations coarse, if you please; but I have no idea that the Sophias and Carolines of any man breathing are to eat national veal, to drink public tea, to wear Treasury ribands, and then that we are to be told that it is coarse to animadvert upon this pitiful and eleemosynary splendour.

Baines, should picture what their feelings would be if their Sophias showed a rude desire to adopt the vocation of chauffeur.

Povey's tape-measure neatly away in its drawer under the cutting-out counter, she thought how serious life was--what with babies and Sophias.

There now are no Squire Westerns, as of old; And our Sophias are not so emphatic, But fair as then, or fairer to behold: We have no accomplished blackguards, like Tom Jones, But gentlemen in stays, as stiff as stones.

The old scholiast introduces the exact quotation referred to by Sophocles as "a celebrated (notorious, [Greek: aoidimon]) and splendid saying, revealed by the wisdom of _some one_, [Greek: meta sophias gar hupo tinos]." Indeed, the sentiment must have been as old as Paganism, wherein, whilst all _voluntary_ acts are attributed to the individual, all _involuntary_ ones are ascribed to the Deity.