The real pleasure of being Mick Jagger was in having everything but being tempted by nothing ... a smouldering ill will which silk... clothes, fine food, wine, women, and every conceivable physical pampering somehow aggravated ... a drained and languorous, exquisitely photogenic ennui.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of its [James A. Garfield's assassination] lessons, perhaps its most important lesson, is the folly, the wickedness, and the d...anger of the extreme and bitter partisanship which so largely prevails in our country. This partisan bitterness is greatly aggravated by that system of appointments and removals which deals with public offices as rewards for services rendered to political parties or to party leaders. Hence crowds of importunate place-hunters of whose dregs [the assassin] Guiteau is the type. The required reform [of the civil service] will be accomplished whenever the people imperatively demand it, not only of their Executive, but also of their legislative officers. With it, the class to which the assassin belongs will lose their occupation, and the temptation to try "to administer government by assassination" will be taken away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be jud...ges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell people that when my son was this age, all of the things he did that really aggravated me and got me upset were things that,... from the standpoint of healthy child development, I wanted him to do. I just didn't want him to do them to me, or at those particular moments!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of p...rogress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »