The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in othe...r people's minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Free verse leaves out the meter and makes up For the deficiency by church intoning.... Free verse, so called, is really cherished prose....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have just returned from home where I spent the holidays frolicking with the girls and laughing almost constantly either at my ow...n folly or that of others. Like most youngsters whose time has been spent at school where we have little society of any kind, and none of the ladies, I am quite bashful when in company, and of course very awkward. This, instead of causing me mortification, affords me an infinite deal of amusement. I know my deficiency and, instead of lamenting over it, I make it a subject of sport both for myself and others who observe it. In this way I avoid all of those painful feelings which torture "the bashful man," and while counterfeiting an indifference to the opinions of others which I do not feel, I often find that I have overcome the embarrassment which at first oppressed me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justl...y undervalued by others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In verity ... we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the... thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards..., no one teaches--enduring loneliness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothin...g to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man is a good lawyer, a good physician, a good engineer ... he may be a fool in every other capacity. But no deficiency or mi...stake of judgment is forgiven to a woman ... and should she fail anywhere, if she has any scientific attainment, or artistic faculty, instead of standing her interest as an excuse, it is censured as an aggravation and offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »