The windows were then closed and the steam turned on. There was a sign up saying that no one could smoke, but you couldn't help it.... You were lucky if you didn't burst into flames.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide... or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows for the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it. Try your design on the best sc...hool. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities. It is difficult to class them, some are too young, some are slow, some perverse. Each requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher, of a day of love and progress, is often closed at evening by despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dutton Peabody: No, no, no, you don't. No. I'm a newspaperman not a politician. Politicians are my meat. I build 'em up. I tear 'e...m down. But I, I wouldn't be one. I couldn't. It'd, it'd destroy me. Gimme a drink. Tom Donophon: The bar is closed. Peabody: Good people of Shinbone, I, I, I'm your conscience. I'm the still small voice that thunders in the night. I'm your watchdog that howls against the wolves. I'm, I'm your father confessor. I, I, I'm, what else am I? Tom: The town drunk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. Ther...e was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »