... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the hu...miliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or mani...fest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety... and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Comes from a fine family. So she tells me. Brother's a priest, all that. But, you know, death, disaster, unfortunate investments. ...One day she's a little princess, up on the hill. Next, she's down there, working the bars for the best she can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this t...own, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics; and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts anywhere made to become acquainted with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
to become a pimp Or deal in fake jewelry or ruin a fine tenor voice... For effects that bring down the house could happen to all But the best and the worst of us . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily bette...r than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »