They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a ...prince as soon as his groom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it dow...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passio...ns, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is probable that in a fit of generosity the men of the United States would have enfranchised its women en masse; and the go...vernment now staggering under the ballots of ignorant, irresponsible men, must have gone down under the additional burden of the votes which would have been thrown upon it, by millions of ignorant, irresponsible women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularit...y, and rough and uneven fields stretched away with lawn-like smoothness to the horizon, and the clouds, finely distinct and picturesque, seemed a fit drapery to hang over fairyland. The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry ... like a green lane into a country maze, at the season when fruit-trees are in blossom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse:... Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death ere thou has slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of demo...cratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid- twentieth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »