Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold al...l that he had and bought it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, th...e policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician--these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever-...-whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior--bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper-...-it's possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother's impending visit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bid her paint till day of doom, To this favour she must come.... Bid the merchant gather wealth, The usurer exact by stealth, The proud man beat it from his thought, Yet to this shape all must be brought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For there I picked up on the heather And there I put inside my breast... A moulted feather, an eagle-feather! Well, I forget the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »