The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue....... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like a...ctors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying--only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.... There is no such thing as observation... of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While yet it is cold January, and snow and ice are thick and solid, the prudent landlord comes from the village to get ice to cool... his summer drink; impressively, even pathetically, wise, to foresee the heat and thirst of July now in January,--wearing a thick coat and mittens! when so many things are not provided for. It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »