Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh…

Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh from Natur’s mold!

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Chapter 34.

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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. - View Quote Details on With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out…
I could have bore it with a thankful art. But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive. No, Betsey!” said Mrs Gamp, in a violent burst of feeling, “nor worms forget! - View Quote Details on I could have bore it with a thankful art. But…
“Do not repine, my friends,” said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. “Do not weep for me. It is chronic.” And with these words, after making a futile attempt to pull off his shoes, he fell into the fireplace. - View Quote Details on “Do not repine, my friends,” said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. “Do…
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point, Mr Pinch. - View Quote Details on Any man may be in good spirits and good temper…
Firstly, that it may be safely asserted, and yet without implying any direct participation in the Manboddo doctrine touching the probability of the human race having once been monkeys, that men do play very strange and extraordinary tricks. Secondly, and yet without trenching on the Blumenbach theory as to the descendants of Adam having a vast number of qualities which belong more particularly to swine than to any other class of animals in the creation, that some men certainly are remarkable for taking uncommon good care of themselves. - View Quote Details on Firstly, that it may be safely asserted, and yet without…
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me. - View Quote Details on I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another…
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. - View Quote Details on If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be…
There might be some credit in being jolly with a wife. - View Quote Details on There might be some credit in being jolly with a…
Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us! - View Quote Details on Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before…
Here’s the rule for bargains — ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’ That’s the true business precept. - View Quote Details on Here’s the rule for bargains — ‘Do other men, for…