... like anyone else who does not have a soul, you cannot stand anyone who has too much of one. Too much soul! That is troublesome..., is it not? So, it is called a sickness: the eggheads are justified and happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since to the awe of thy imperious wit Our troublesome language bends, made only fit... With her tough thick-ribbed hoops to gird about Thy giant fancy, which had proved too stout For their soft melting phrases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sure characteristic of a sound and strong mind is, to find, in everything, those certain bounds, quos ultra citrave nequit con...sistere rectum. These boundaries are marked out by a very fine line, which only good sense and attention can discover; it is much too fine for vulgar eyes. In manners, this line is good breeding; beyond it, is troublesome ceremony; short of it, is unbecoming negligence and inattention. In morals, it divides ostentatious Puritanism from criminal relaxation; in religion, superstition from impiety; and, in short, every virtue from its kindred vice or weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With m...an, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash" and "grass." He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego.... The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? ...I know no speck so troublesome as self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the... healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent; irresponsible; looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid ...of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we have difficulties between soldiers, very slight and easily disposed of; but troubles between soldiers and the carpenters w...hose tools disappear mysteriously, and farmers in the neighborhood who go to bed with roosts of barnyard fowl and wake up chickenless and fowlless, are more troublesome.... Our men are fully equal to the famous Massachusetts men in a mechanical way. They build quarters, ditches, roads, traps; dig wells, catch fish, kill squirrels, etc., etc., and it is really a new sensation, the affection and pride one feels respecting such a body of men in the aggregate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has a... great attraction for the adolescent mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »