It is silly to seek a basic law, even sillier to find it. Some mean-spirited little man decides that the whole course of humanity ...can be explained in terms of insidiously revolving signs of the zodiac or as the struggle between an empty and a stuffed belly; he hires a punctilious Philistine to act as Clio's clerk, and begins a wholesale trade in epochs and masses; and then woe to the private individuum, with his two poor u's, hallooing hopelessly amid the dense growth of economic causes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he enc...ountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country's... fashion. We are the makers of manners, Kate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »