It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we... are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himse...lf to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a ...large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Pop" Wyman ruled here with a firm but gentle hand; no drunken man was ever served at the bar; no married man was allowed to play ...at the tables; across the face of the large clock was written "Please Don't Swear," and over the orchestra appeared the gentle admonition, "Don't Shoot the Pianist--He's Doing His Damndest."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »