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 »
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among t...he Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the farmer his sickle, the baker his loaf, and t...he tapster his bottle. All were off for the mines, some on horses, some on carts, and some on crutches, and one went in a litter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The meeting, in spite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one of the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination, I s...hall be "fixed" a good deal like a fellow who is made groomsman to the man what has cut him out, and is marrying his own dear "gal."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that t...hey lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their... own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmaneuvered by the U.S. military? Y...et, given time, I think the press will bounce back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »