He will watch you while you work, and always has a good word to say or a quip to snap at you to keep you cheered up, but when it c...omes to taking off his coat and lending a hand,... he is an Oriental incense-holder on the guest-room mantle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my hold...er, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such condi...tions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not want to be covetous, but I think I speak the minds of many a wife and mother when I say I would willingly work as hard as... possible all day and all night, if I might be sure of a small profit, but have worked hard for twenty-five years and have never known what it was to receive a financial compensation and to have what was really my own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »