She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older--the natural sequel of an unnatural beginnin...g.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical pers...on, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him fro...m his ordinary notice of trifles: it is an act quite easy to be contemplated, but in its sequel, it turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial, and promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and beho...ld what was there already. I make! O no! I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement, before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages, young with the life of life, the sunbright Mecca of the desert.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the... elders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... and the next summer she died in childbirth. That's all. Of course, there may be some sort of sequel but it is not known ...to me. In such cases instead of getting bogged down in guesswork, I repeat the words of the merry king in my favorite fairy tale: Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome a...fter satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to kee...p a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away went the messenger's bicycle, His serpent's track went up the hill forever.... And all the time she stood there hot as fever And cold as any icicle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »