The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive hi...m crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the serial continues: Pain, expiation, delight, more pain,... A frieze that lengthens continually, in the lucky way Friezes do, and no plot is produced, Nothing you could hang an identifying question on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everybody comes along at the right time.... Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde was lucky beca...use he came at the right time--if he hadn't gone to court and been martyred he wouldn't be such a cult hero now. Or Jesus Christ--if he came back now he would really be up the shit because there's no capital punishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of tria...l and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident--the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things, A blackened people, living and dying in silence.... (Enfin, dans un amas de choses, sombre, immense, Un peuple noir, vivant et mourant en silence.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The windows were then closed and the steam turned on. There was a sign up saying that no one could smoke, but you couldn't help it.... You were lucky if you didn't burst into flames.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he'...s in business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth!... O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crown...ed with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »