If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and... foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper?... I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates h...im as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears... (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She loved money, but could occasionally part with it, especially to men of learning, whose patronage she affected. She often conve...rsed with them, and bewildered herself in their metaphysical disputes, which neither she nor they themselves understood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God grant we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don't mean stupid, but to have to ...go to war on account of tiresome Servia beggars belief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one ...is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children--for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him--and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »