There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and u...seless conventional virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough;... There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitute... a political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam; The good red fires were burning bright in every 'longshore home;...r />The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out; And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a l...ittle over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »