From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in real...ity they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but with the necessary conveniences so much sought after in Europe; they are happy in not knowing the use of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on! ...go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,... The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare At the North Pole. . . And now what? Why, go back.
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pay...s itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ay...atollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ere I could Give him that parting kiss which I had set... Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father, And like the tyrannous breathing of the north Shakes all our buds from growing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior var...iety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of "Wut," is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »