Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neig...hbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his marketcare into a chariot of the sun. What a day dawns, when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the compan...y at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing wi...th more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes grea...t care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely you wouldn't grudge the poor old man Some humble way to save his self-respect.... He added, if you really care to know, He meant to clear the upper pasture, too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other b...oys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied,... But ever restless and irregular, About this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, That he has quite forgot how to go there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »