I frankly admit that to be a "mistress" is less dishonorable than to be a "wife"; for while the mistress may leave her degradation... if she will, public sentiment and the law hold the "wife" in hers; and while the man is obliged to render compensation (poor I admit for the sacrifice) to his "mistress," he may demand of his "wife" that she perform his drudgery, submit to his blows, and (worse) live the uncomplaining victim of his rapacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed b...y us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations to the work of the world, ought to... do it himself, and not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket, or his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus, and we petty men... Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »