... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individual...s in it "costs worlds of pain."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass... Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals, Because, till people know what's come to pass, They won't lay out their money on the dead-- It costs three francs for every mass that's said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness ...in the stomach, and other inconveniences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hour...s and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs--something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking i...n tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no... work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed co...rn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The City of New York is currently undergoing a grave experiment that affects the comfort and, on occasion, the safety of even the ...most casual visitor. The experiment consists in seeing whether a city of that size can be operated on a far smaller amount of money than would make its life tolerable and a still smaller amount than would make it agreeable. The richer New Yorkers ... are cooperating with an enthusiasm that the affluent rarely show for social experiment, and at great personal expense. They are paying for private security guards in unprecedented numbers and costly private schooling for their children ... and they are accepting numerous other costs and inconveniences in order to show that private affluence is consistent with public squalor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »