When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and you...r silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today. That we may look at them, in their gardens where... The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. Even the leaves fall down in lovelier patterns here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gentlemen [at a ball], as they passed and repassed, looked as if they thought we were quite at their disposal, and only waitin...g for the honour of their commands; and they sauntered about, in a careless indolent manner, as if with a view to keep us in suspense.... I thought it so provoking, that I determined in my own mind that, far from humouring such airs, I would rather not dance at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when t...he sated man instructs the hungry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »