I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he... didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just),... They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat--... ... We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die! Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were with us--they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen, MHe alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;... But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich ...and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor. As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully-restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learn...ed to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »