You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by care...ful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn... what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had to get him to suck them they were so hard he said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the te...a well hes beyond everything I declare somebody ought to put him in the budget if I only could remember the 1 half of the things and write a book out of it the works of Master Poldy yes....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I close my eyes and suck you in like a fire. I grow. I grow. I'm fattening out.... I'm a kid in a rowboat and you're the sea, the salt, you're every fish of importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me;... I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foolish fears of what might happen. I cast them all away... Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay, Among the husking of the corn, Where drowsy poppies nod Where ill thoughts die and good are born-- Out in the fields with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »