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CHAPTER XIX. FEW things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. IT were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.—Pudd'nhead - Page 246
take it along." Tom humbly held the door for her, and she ^ marched out as grim and erect as a grenadier. CHAPTER IX. Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral ? It is because we are not the person involved.— - Page 110
Calendar. THE scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In ,1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one- and two-story frame dwellings whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of - Page 17
XVI. IF you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.—Pudd'nhead Wilson' - Page 214
ADAM was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the - Page 27
cradle again, the other child nestled in its sleep and attracted her attention. She went and stood over it a long time communing with herself: " What has my po' baby done, dat he couldn't have yo' luck ? He hain't done noth'n'. God was good to you ; why warn't he good to him ? Dey can't - Page 42
of distress, now ; even people who despise him are pitying him ; they think this is a hard ordeal for a young fellow who has lost his benefactor by so cruel a stroke — and they are right." He resumed his speech : " For more than twenty years I have amused my compulsory leisure with collecting - Page 290
CHAPTER XII. COURAGE is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave ; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the - Page 155
make stir enough, without that." "Yes, that 's of course. Luigi—Angelo. They 're lovely names; and so grand and foreign—not like Jones and Robinson and such. Thursday they are coming, and this is only Tuesday ; it 's a cruel long time to wait. Here comes Judge Driscoll in at the gate. He 's heard about it. I - Page 74
Calendar. WE know all about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.—Pudd'nhead - Page 214
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