This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty--this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air th...e arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[F]rankly ... it was perfectly true that I had, for over a year, expressed the opinion that Indo-China should not go back to Franc...e but that it should be administered by an international trusteeship. France has had the country ... for nearly one hundred years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning.... France has milked it for one hundred years. The people of Indo-China are entitled to something better than that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is remarkable how few events or crises there are in our histories, how little exercised we have been in our minds, how few expe...riences we have had. I would fain be assured that I am growing apace and rankly, though my very growth disturb this dull equanimity,--though it be with struggle through long, dark, muggy nights or seasons of gloom. It would be well if all our lives were a divine tragedy even, instead of this trivial comedy or farce. Dante, Bunyan, and others appear to have been exercised in their minds more than we: they were subjected to a kind of culture such as our district schools and colleges do not contemplate. Even Mahomet, though many may scream at his name, had a good deal more to live for, aye, and to die for, than they have commonly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »