It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successivel...y, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; Mbut when a beginning is made--when felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it complet...ely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they c...annot do without.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventi...ons of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole--so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do wi...thout the help and support of the woman I love.... I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »