When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning--how much remain...s of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of ...the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English, besides being "good haters," are dogged and downright, and have no salvos for their self-love. Their vanity does not ...heal the wounds made in their pride. The French, on the contrary, are soon reconciled to fate, and so enamoured of their own idea, that nothing can put them out of conceit with it. Whatever their attachment to their country, to liberty or glory, they are not so affected by the loss of these as to make any desperate effort or sacrifice to recover them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. Peopl...e who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people, start feuds, fall prey to megalomania, grow touchy about their prestige and significance and go around completely devoid of self-criticism, bragging about the position and the influence they have at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these autho...rs. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don't brag ab...out it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die--at least not in the act--and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright "character;" possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of t...heir native habitat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright good... feeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a very common error of some unscrupulously infidel-minded, selfish, unprincipled, or downright knavish men, to suppose that ...believing men, or benevolent-hearted men, or good men, do not know enough to be unscrupulously selfish, do not know enough to be unscrupulous knaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more; ...while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »