The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, s...oldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of s...uch far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching fac...es, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord, when the wise men came from far, Led to thy cradle by a star,... Then did the shepherds too rejoice, Instructed by thy angel's voice. Blest were the wise men in their skill, And shepherds in their harmless will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray;... Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »