Courtin's manual of etiquette of 1671 explains: "These little people are allowed to amuse themselves without anyone troubling to s...ee whether they are behaving well or badly; they are permitted to do as they please; nothing is forbidden them; they laugh when they ought to cry, they cry when they ought to laugh, they talk when they ought to be silent, and they are mute when good manners require them to replay. It is cruelty to allow them to go on living in this way. The parents say that when they are bigger they will be corrected. Would it not be better to deal with them in such a way that there was nothing to correct?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns... With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarou...s, and cruel, as you are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only on...e big thing--desire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of bea...ns in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the pri...vileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A great world leader is gone. Liberty loving people around the globe are sad tonight. We are strengthened in the thought of Presid...ent Roosevelt's work for little people everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »