The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the s...eventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne's observation, "I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it is... wrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put dow...n a revolutionary minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Brutus. Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true. Messala. Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell,... For certain she is dead, and by strange manner. Brutus. Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks; though I ain't had no... experience, and can't say for certain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would st...ill keep on writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense ...advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »