Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart aga...in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having... lived and killed alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In companions That do converse and waste the time together,... Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Opera once was an important social instrument--especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together... and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a so...mething in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantrie...s, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend let loose, and sneezed. The air carefully gathered itself together again, after being locally at odds with prevailing cl...imate and momentarily boycotting the trade winds. The germs were assimilated, like immigrant Jews within the overall commercial prosperity of uniform America. My friend, who had recoiled, was now well distributed in equal blocks of masses behind the reformed nose, whose recent adventure was put aside with even temper as but the sowing of wild oats. The nose, to compensate for its rash act, became a model of decorum, and was elevated as a moral precept: seen, but not heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it were... a fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »