One who was my companion in my two previous excursions to these woods, tells me that ... he found himself dining one day on moose-...meat, mud turtle, trout, and beaver, and he thought that there were few places in the world where these dishes could easily be brought together on one table.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Weare attended on Lady Dellwyn as her shadow. And as she had before received a great deal of flattery at second hand, so she ...now received a great deal of contempt in the same manner, with this material difference, that the flattery which came to her share ... lost much of its respectful manner by the way, whereas [the] contempt fell with redoubled force on her ... insomuch that Miss Weare often repined and secretly wished that she had rather submitted to the meanest employment ... than taken up the trade of being an humble companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love a...nd Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An epicure dining at Cree Found a rather large mouse in his stew.... Said the waiter, "Don't shout, Or wave it about, Or the rest will be wanting one too."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, whic...h he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics.... Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prayer is the fair and radiant daughter of all the human virtues, the arch connecting heaven and earth, the sweet companion that i...s alike the lion and the dove; and prayer will give you the key of heaven. As pure and as bold as innocence, as strong as all things are that are entire and single, this fair and invincible queen rests on the material world; she has taken possession of it; for, like the sun, she casts about it a sphere of light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically c...hange into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »