While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely an...d fatally?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying ...with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves... To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dead have been awakened--shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?... The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, Its echo in my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Helpless and overwrought, she would fasten... the rope-noose about the beam above her bride-couch and tie it to her white throat....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed co...rn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; t...wo people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »