--'I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown, And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!'--... 'My dear--a raw country girl, such as you be, Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old heavens, you used to tweak above us, Standing like rain whenever a salvo . . . Old heavens,... You lying there above the old, but not ruined, fort, Can you hear, there, what I am saying? For it is you I am parodying, Your invisible denials.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wond...er is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then you, ye auld, snick-drawing dog! Ye cam to Paradise incog,... An' played on a man a cursed brogue, (Black be your fa'!) An' gied the infant warld a shog, 'Maist ruined a'.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail--its roof may shake--the wind may ...blow through it--the storm may enter--the rain may enter--but the King of England cannot enter!--all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, river...s grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, where ...a man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »