About the London shop girls of the meaner short no derogatory remarks can be too strong, just as no commendation can be too high o...f the courtesy, honest, and good nature of the girls who wait on you in the shops on Oxford and Bond Streets. This court-born, alley- nursed, street-bred girl is everywhere. Sometimes she is sober, oftener she is not. She sells you flowers and fruit on every corner, serves in bars and cheap eating-houses. We have nothing at all at home to correspond to her ...She wears flowers and paste jewels, but she seldom bathes, never has enough hairpins, and considers toothbrushes necessary only for members of the royal family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at ano...ther man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when a great burly six feet of masculinity with sloping shoulders and unkempt beard swaggers in, and, throwing a roll of tobac...co into one corner of his jaw, growls out at me over the paper I am reading, "Here gurl," (I am past thirty) "you better git out 'n dis kyar 'f yer don't, I'll put yer out"Mmy mental annotation is Here's an American citizen who has been badly trained. He is sadly lacking in both "sweetness" and "light" ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet p...erhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Corner Store, near the village center, hangs a large sign reading: 'After 40 years of credit business, we have closed our b...ook of Sorrow.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while ...people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashe...d, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little co...rner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »