Thus has Homer proved his opinion of our poor sex--that the love of beauty is our most prevailing passion. It really grieves me to... think that there certainly must be reason for the insignificant opinion the greatest men have of women--at least I fear there must.--But I don't in fact believe it--thank God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not f...ear what their reason can do against you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rarely do American parents deliberately teach their children to hate members of another racial, religious, or nationality group. M...any parents, however, communicate the prevailing racial attitudes to their children in subtle and sometimes unconscious ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend let loose, and sneezed. The air carefully gathered itself together again, after being locally at odds with prevailing cl...imate and momentarily boycotting the trade winds. The germs were assimilated, like immigrant Jews within the overall commercial prosperity of uniform America. My friend, who had recoiled, was now well distributed in equal blocks of masses behind the reformed nose, whose recent adventure was put aside with even temper as but the sowing of wild oats. The nose, to compensate for its rash act, became a model of decorum, and was elevated as a moral precept: seen, but not heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild impreca...tions the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind h...is back for a treacherous stab.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We a...re incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learn...ing and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law a...nd respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »