What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like bei...ng surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was at work that morning. Someone came riding like mad Over the bridge and up the road--Farmer Rouf's little lad.... Bareback he rode; he had no hat; he hardly stopped to say, "Morgan's men are coming, Frau, they're galloping on this way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beauclerc: You've got a good memory for one who drinks. Eddie: Drinkin' don't bother my memory. If it did, I wouldn't drink. ...I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was. Then where'd I be? I'd start drinkin' water again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »