My dear Mr. District Attorney, your law is shockingly bad. I have the perfect alibi. I am legally dead. Your business is with the ...living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, in your rural letter box I leave this note without a stamp... To tell you it was just a tramp Who used your pasture for a camp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools... To dandle fools: The rural parts are turned into a den Of savage men: And where 's a city from all vice so free, But may be termed the worst of all the three?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our inherent human charity and our religious beliefs will be taxed to the limit. No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever... have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job, or simple justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;... Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go, look within, and ask if peace be there: If peace be his--that drooping weary sire, Of theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire, Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow bor...n out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[They] hired a large house as a receptacle for gentlewomen, who either had no fortunes, or so little that it would not support the...m. For these they made the most comfortable institution [and] provided [them] with all conveniences for rural amusements, a library, musical instruments, and implements for various works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »