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I don't suppose, dear, you're really defending the French Sunday?

Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth.

What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness?

She clutched her manuscript, carrying it tenderly through the crowd, like a live thing that had been hurt.

Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.

Miss Corby's role was jocularity. She always entered the conversation with a handspring.

He looked at her hopelessly. Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve.

THE CHARACTERISTIC passion of Burke's life was his love of order.

He dredged in a pocket, producing from it a box of non-ethical, and indeed totally inefficacious, tranquillizers, such as could be bought without a prescription across the counter of any chemist's. 'Here, have a Kwye Tewd.' He

There goes the most remarkable man I ever met. Unless I am badly mistaken, the world is due to hear from him one of these days.

Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

Washburn noticed how courteous the Colonel was to servants, and how he talked with equal animation about his gardener and the King of Italy.

I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

He is recognized as the world authority on big American game mammals, and is an ornithologist of some note. Stooping to pick a speck of brown fluff off the White House lawn, he will murmur, "Very early for a fox sparrow!"84

Newlywed couples strolled the Mall—Washington now outranked Niagara as a sexual shrine

He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian.

the great fundamental questions looming before us,"21 namely, the unnatural alliance of politics and corporations. It

UMW executives were openly inciting mobs to riot.

About as thorough-paced a scoundrel as I ever saw," Roosevelt declared. "An oily-Gammon, churchgoing specimen."45

Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues

But nothing new to him was that same pain; Nor pain at all; for he so oft had tried . . . and lov'd so oft in vain.

no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . . Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.