My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do no...t play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In general the newly sighted see the world as a dazzle of color-patches. They are pleased by the sensation of color, and learn qui...ckly to name the colors, but the rest of seeing is tormentingly difficult.... It oppresses them to realize, if they ever do at all, the tremendous size of the world, which they had previously conceived of as something touchingly manageable. It oppresses them to realize that they have been visible to people all along, perhaps unattractively so, without their knowledge or consent. A disheartening number of them refuse to use their new vision, continuing to go over objects with their tongues, and lapsing into apathy and despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very... quickly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of ...correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier,... Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire: I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moones sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar,... Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire; I do wander everywhere Swifter than the moon's sphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded women. The...re is not one which has not made her subject to man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »