I don't want her to have a cat because she'll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That's the way it is, and how can a P.I. do tha...t?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not naturally ... "A bag of wind"; yet ... I mean deliberately and decidedly "to cut" in future all my old ideas on this head.... I don't think modesty "pays." It is a good quality in a family, it is a domestic virtue, it makes a home happy after you have got a home, but it is not potent in getting homes. It is not a money-maker, neither is it lucky in gaining a reputation. I am of the impression that gaseous bodies do better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference bet...ween the two, which, in my judgement, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favour of the race to which I belong having the superior position.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible.... In the eyes of a European, what am I... but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Contentment even protects against colds. Has any woman who knew herself to be well dressed ever caught a cold?--I am assuming that... she was barely dressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been working in a male culture for a very long time, and I haven't met the first one who wants to go out and hunt a giraffe.... I am very, very troubled by the new factual data that seems to be coming out of our new leader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »