The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. ...This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage- coach, that it... is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Times go by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse....
The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow, She draws her favours to the lowest ebb; Her tides have equal times to come and go, Her loom doth weave the fine and Coarsest web;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing very bad happen to me lately. How you explain that?--I explain that, Mr Bones,... terms o' your bafflin odd sobriety. Sober as man can get, no girls, no telephones, what could happen bad to Mr Bones?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.... What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? I never know what are thinking. Think."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion; ...society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... She thinks if it was bad to live with him, It must be right to leave him."... "Which is wrong!" "Yes, but he should have married her." "I know."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »