The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who... are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state ...of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-up<...br />daughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »