So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, How much do you owe my master?' He answered, A hundred jugs o...f olive oil.' He said to him, Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which we... owe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These to thee, my God, we owe; Source whence all our blessings flow;... And for these my soul shall raise Grateful vows and solemn praise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Understand that your pain will never equal the injustice that is visited upon man, and, finally, listen to my advice. I do owe you... advice since I just killed your husband. Pray to your God that he make you like stone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the... advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost--for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it ...: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter ...deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a... morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart- opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and ... adore thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »