Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them re...gister their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate ...friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Weare attended on Lady Dellwyn as her shadow. And as she had before received a great deal of flattery at second hand, so she ...now received a great deal of contempt in the same manner, with this material difference, that the flattery which came to her share ... lost much of its respectful manner by the way, whereas [the] contempt fell with redoubled force on her ... insomuch that Miss Weare often repined and secretly wished that she had rather submitted to the meanest employment ... than taken up the trade of being an humble companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How the devil am I to prove to my counsel that I don't know my murderous impulses through C.G. Jung, jealousy through Marcel Prous...t, Spain through Hemingway ... It's true, you need never have read these authorities, you can absorb them through your friends, who also live all their experiences second-hand. What an age!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves... at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be.... What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them.... There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I concluded that I was skilled, however poorly, at only one thing: marriage. And so I set about the business of selling myself and... two children to some unsuspecting man who might think me a desirable second-hand mate, a man of good means and disposition willing to support another man's children in some semblance of the style to which they were accustomed. My heart was not in the chase, but I was tired and there was no alternative. I could not afford freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also s...eldom works properly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »