It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country wheth...er he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls' curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to buil...d the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!' ... 'Tell me, Henry Wadsworth, Alfred, Poet Close, or Mister Tupper, Do you write the bonbon mottoes my Elvira pulls at supper?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enhances the chances to bless with a benison Alfred Lord Tennyson crossing the barlaid... With cold vegetation from pale deputations Of temperance workers (all signed In Memoriam)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am parshial to ladies if they are nice[.] I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifyability. We say that a... sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express--that is, if he knows what observations would lead him, under certain conditions, to accept the proposition as true, or reject it as being false.... To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »