... the ... thing I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, n...ever! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then I had only prisoners' thoughts. I awaited the daily walk which I took in the yard, or my lawyer's visit. I managed the remain...der of my time very well. I have often thought that if I was made to live in a dry tree trunk, without any other occupation but to watch the flower of the sky above my head, I would have gradually gotten used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When offense occurred, Slaughter took the trail, and seldom returned with a live prisoner. Usually he reported that he had chased ...the suspect "clean out of the county"; these suspects never reappeared in Tombstone--or anywhere else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my fooli...sh hopes in despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to t...he person who took the lead in the business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife;... And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
FROM his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood,... Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In its case it lay compactly, Folded into nearly nothing; But he opened out the hinges, Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges, Till it looked all squares and oblongs, Like a complicated figure In the second book of Euclid. This he perched upon a tripod-- Crouched beneath its dusky cover-- Stretched his hand, enforcing silence-- Said "Be motionless, I beg you!" Mystic, awful was the process. All the family in order Sat before him for their pictures: Each in turn as he was taken, Volunteered his own suggestions, His ingenious suggestions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »