The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was... too hard for the digestion of the Cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is silly to seek a basic law, even sillier to find it. Some mean-spirited little man decides that the whole course of humanity ...can be explained in terms of insidiously revolving signs of the zodiac or as the struggle between an empty and a stuffed belly; he hires a punctilious Philistine to act as Clio's clerk, and begins a wholesale trade in epochs and masses; and then woe to the private individuum, with his two poor u's, hallooing hopelessly amid the dense growth of economic causes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I remember the almost daily talks of my mother on the cruelty of slavery. I would say nothing to her, but I was thinking all the t...ime that slavery did not seem so cruel. Master and Mistress Jennings were not mean to my mother. It was she who was mean to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the world ...that we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in th...e mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »