Nearer yet to town, you come to ... ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a... prominent and astounding part in our New England life, and deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who comes first in the guise of a friend or hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family,--ââ¬âew-England Rum. But history must not yet tell the tragedies enacted here; let time intervene in some measure to assuage and lend an azure tint to them. Here the most indistinct and dubious tradition says that once a tavern stood; the well the same, which tempered the traveller's beverage and refreshed his steed. Here then men saluted one another, and heard and told the news, and went their ways again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelin...gs, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets.... The rich and the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to t...he making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tony Camonte: Hey, what's all the time bitin' you? You afraid of me? Poppy: Well, that outfit is enough to give anybody the y...ips.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your ...work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »