The Unofficial SecretaryA.C. McClurg & Company, 1912 - 280 pages |
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Page 139 - NEEDLES and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries, his trouble begins.
Page 126 - What care I for robe or stole? It is the soul, it is the soul ; What for crown, or what for crest? It is the heart within the breast ; It is the faith, it is the hope ; It is the struggle up the slope, It is the brain and eye to see One God, and one humanity.
Page 149 - Vesuvius, and you can easily persuade yourself that there is nothing on the earth nor in the heavens above nor in the waters under the earth which can put the fire out, but beware!
Page 126 - What care I for caste or creed? It is the deed, it is the deed; What for class or what for clan? It is the man, it is the man; Heirs of love, and joy, and woe, Who is high, and who is low? Mountain, valley, sky, and sea, Are for all humanity.
Page 112 - ... of Brazil and Uruguay and Argentina. They fought as though they were defending the sacredest principle on earth instead of merely laying down their lives for a gifted young man who had a European education, a French mistress and the idea that he was another Napoleon. For five years they fought until it was almost literally true that there were no men left in Paraguay and nothing in the country but women and children and oranges. The women cultivated these to keep their children alive and it was...
Page 234 - Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of death. Amen.
Page 140 - Old Mother Goose when she wanted to wander, Rode through the air on a very fine gander!
Page 189 - quand on n'a pas ce qu'on aime, il faut aimer ce qu'on a...
Page 185 - If he did he had sworn it all away before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.
Page 237 - ... early the companionship of sullied thoughts is theirs. Alone, unoccupied, ambitionless — the influence of these evil companions is all-powerful. What wonder then that few Peruvian mothers think it possible that a boy should grow up moral ? What wonder that Peru's...